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...author of a novel as good as Thomas Berger's Little Big Man is not soon forgiven. That marvelous saddlebag full of lies from the Old West was too crankily individualistic for the kind of discreet repetition that is the basis of a successful literary career. Yet anything short of a second Little Big Man is likely to be waved fretfully away by Berger's most devoted admirers...
...Cleveland Orchestra have approached the august virtuosity, combustible power and quartet-like intimacy that Solti has established with the Chicago Symphony The advent of Solti in Chicago, as he himself puts it with characteristic bluntness, "was like awakening the sleeping princess." At age 60, Solti may be forgiven for depicting himself as Prince Charming for the simple reason that almost everyone agrees with...
...mellow and moist-eyed, Frank Sinatra had finally made it. The Kennedys may have snubbed him because of his underworld connections. Richard Nixon may have regretted his lack of gallantry with Columnist Maxine Cheshire. But now all was forgiven. There Frank was in the White House, singing ten of his old favorites for visiting Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti. The President himself led the standing ovation after Ol' Man River and called his visiting star "the Washington Monument of entertainment." Afterward, Sinatra went back to his newly rented Washington town house and gave a party for a few friends, including...
UNLESS BIAGGI is completely vindicated, the obvious winner in this bizarre affair will be Abe Beame. Beame has been a good Comptroller, even if at times unable to resist petty attacks on Lindsay, whom he has never forgiven for his defeat in 1965. Beame is not regarded as terribly imaginative, but his integrity is unquestioned. Jewish voters who might normally vote for Blumenthal can pull the lever for Beame without a trace of guilt, as Beame occupies the solid center of the political spectrum. With only five weeks left before the primary, Biaggi will have to recover very fast from...
Hollywood has never forgiven TV for taking away most of its audience and its income, and every year it exacts a kind of Montezuma's revenge with perhaps the worst TV special of the season-the Academy Awards. This year's show should satisfy all the movie industry's grievances, past, present and future. If anything went right, the faithful TV cameras did not record...