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...modest Honda Civic in which he drove himself last year is seldom seen these days. Instead, he races around Monrovia in a chauffeured black Mercedes-Benz limousine flanked by motorcycle police with wailing sirens. A hairdresser comes to his suite in the Israeli-built Executive Mansion each morning to fluff up his luxuriant Afro. As one Liberian official puts it: "He is getting comfortable as the head of state...
...happening before his eyes. Mistakes were common. One writer remembers watch ing with horror as two actors who were supposed to be dead received an early cue and rose before the camera moved away. Nothing so clumsy happens in this series, but a close observer will hear Paul Newman fluff a line in Bang the Drum and see that after Andy Griffith spills a drink on his shirt in No Time for Sergeants, he does not change it for inspection the next morning. No matter. There is an excitement in a live performance that technical perfection cannot duplicate...
...experiences like the Birmingham. Bulls and Houston Aeros have soured those areas for hockey for a long time. But this series would go over just as big as, say, NASL soccer or the WCT, Genuine sports action will sell to the quality fan, whatever the sport, just as expansion fluff will turn off the most ardent rooter...
COHEN SPENDS a great deal of space showing himself as a person. We learn of his basketball ability, his youth, and his love for his family. This fluff may make good campaign literature in the future, but does nothing for the reader. In some parts, Cohen carries it to an extreme. Poetry, Cohen says, plays an important part in his life, and he tells us that a passage from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance convinced him not to run for Senator two years earlier...
...condoned babble of celebrities on television has done much to diminish the art of the interview. In contrast to such fluff, Lawrence Spivak in the early days of NBC's Meet the Press set a standard for Sunday talk shows with politicians. He refused to court either the guest or the audience. The aim of such shows, after all, is to inform more than to entertain. In fair, informed and gentlemanly questioning, no one excels Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer of public television. The self-restraint is admirable, but such a style of questioning lacks the articulate aplomb...