Word: enigmas
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...trying to wrestle this enigma onto the TV screen, the CBS series-produced by RAI, the Italian national television company that aired it in Italy last fall -never resolves the hard choice between truth and drama. This week's episode opened with the death of Leonardo in the arms of France's King Francis I, the patron of the artist's declining years. Creaky and inspirational, the scene at least has a style that might grow on a sympathetic viewer. Alas, hardly has Leonardo expired when a young "guide" in a modern business suit comes on camera...
...possess quite the same sensitivities. There is Seidensticker, a mammoth black man who calls Bo by his full name. Beauregard, and who is almost paternal toward him. He patiently helps Bo adjust to a job which doesn't always run parallel to written law, but Seidensticker poses an enigma to Bo because of all the detectives on the squad, he is most ruthless with blacks...
...hands of the Spiro Agnew watches move on, a dated joke. The man-no joke-moves on too. In 31 years he has advanced from "Spiro who?" to the most famous Vice President in U.S. history-but he is still an enigma...
...esteem of his convict peers, Frank suggests, as well as the satisfaction of baffling the world by escaping, and then remaining an enigma after his capture...
Harvard's line-up will be an unknown quantity. The Crimson can depend upon its lightweights and heavyweights, but the troublesome middleweight bouts will remain an enigma...