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...caution. In this case the very flatness of the words was reassuring; Arafat and Rabin had left themselves no room for ambiguity, evasion or disavowal. The veteran antagonists had actually put on paper the idea that generations of Palestinian and Israeli leaders, themselves included, had vowed never to entertain: no longer will Israel and the P.L.O. try to destroy each other. Instead they will attempt to live side by side in peace. What had justly been called the world's most intractable problem suddenly looked solvable...
...suddenly required to stay home and help out with the crops. Then came the modern urban-industrial era, with the unprecedented notion of the "companionate marriage." Abruptly, the * two sexes -- who had gone for millenniums without exchanging any more than the few grunts required for courtship -- were expected to entertain each other with witty repartee over dinner...
...Just ask his friends and colleagues. Mike Reiss, an executive producer of The Simpsons, recalls that "we'd be working on rewrites, 16-hour days, with sweaty men glowering at each other. And Conan would always entertain us; he was the comedy writers' comedian. I'd call him the '90s Steve Allen: smart, funny and very likable, with a more modern sensibility." The key is likability -- that elusive, soft-core charisma. Has Conan got it? "He doesn't have the sardonic glibness of Letterman," says Betsy Frank, a senior vice president at advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi, "which...
...Virginia Woolf, "Orlando" has all the pieces needed for a movie destined to be an award winner, or at least a cult classic. There is cinematography that comes close to a quality novel's description, acting with extreme depth and dry, campy humor meant to shock as well as entertain...
...Entertainment programs, as the name implies, try to entertain without necessarily challenging. For a politician, the Tonight Show offers the prospect of a free ride: face exposure, name recognition, and no tough questions. It is relatively obvious that faced with the choice between getting thrashed by Ted Koppel or "hosted" by Jay Leno, a politician will choose the latter option. It is certainly a proposition that the producers of such light entertainment understand. They bear part of the responsibility for the political complacency that characterizes the age of infotainment, providing a deleterious short cut for lazy leaders...