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...providing a greater proportion of space for news than most papers. "The trouble with a lot of papers of our size," Miller says, "is that they become the worst kind of ragbags. They live off the wire services and the church notices, canned editorials, with no flair for politics or the printed word." The Eagle's generous editorial budget seems to be good business. The paper does not publicize its earnings, but it is understood to make moderate profits. Advertising in 1972 topped 1,000,000 column inches for the first time in the paper's history...
...Victorian stereotype alone does not explain the woman's extraordinary fascination for biographers. Kings and queens are not, as a rule, very interesting people-the house of Hanover, in particular, had a flair of dullness, except when its sons were deranged by porphyria or brandy-and Victoria was one of the few British monarchs to be a wholly singular creature. "She not merely filled the chair. She filled the room," remarked the Duke of Wellington, a man not easily impressed, when he saw her after she had received the news of William IV's death...
...performance of such stature that the rest of the movie looks scrawny beside it. In Fail Safe and The Deadly Affair, Lumet showed a strong and substantial flair for melodrama, but nearly everything seems to go wrong for him in Child's Play, from Michael Small's sonorous and silly score to the untidy accumulation of anticlimaxes left about by the scenarist...
...writes like a "felt" pen but is not as durable. Bic claims that in just over six months since it was brought out in the U.S., the 29? Banana has become the nation's No. 2 seller in the fine-line marker field, after Papermate's 49? Flair. In January or February next year, Bic will introduce packs of Bananas in combinations of colors; a five-pack will sell for 99? and a ten-pack...
Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (Tenor Jon Vickers, Soprano Helga Dernesch, Soprano Christa Ludwig, Baritone Walter Berry, Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan conducting; Angel, 5 LPs, $29.90). What a cast of performers! What a disappointment! Given Karajan's past flair for Wagner, not to mention stalwart Tenor Vickers as Tristan, this could well have been, the stereo statement of Wagner's endless paean to adultery. Instead, it is merely a smooth, workmanlike job, hampered by Dernesch's inability to make Isolde alive enough so that her death is significant. The record is also marred by the cavernous, "first...