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...something almost silly about all this jostling for an edge, for the most trivial advantage that might make the debaters look or behave better. Except that the stakes were so large, the impact of the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates still so sharply felt in every politician's gizzard. This first debate would surely be the most critical event of the 1976 campaign, and both candidates knew...
...cars, fire trucks and long expanses of shiny kitchenware. The average result is an almost unimaginably stupid and passive materialism-the boredom of Warhol's silk-screened photos without their threat and bite. Thus, confronted for the nth time with another perfect rendering of reflections on the chrome gizzard of a Harley-Davidson or the pastille skin of a Volkswagen, one is apt to recall Truman Capote's sneer (about another medium) that "this isn't writing, it's typing...
Display of Gizzard. Cousins' deep love for the Review was evident in his anguished rhetoric. The situation, he said, was "a test of whether a magazine is a property or a living thing. You're dealing with delicate membranes, with people. Can you sell a wife? How do you transfer affection?" Cousins even considered abandoning the Review and starting a new magazine to compete with it. But, he reflected, "you can't turn against your own lifestyle, your own history. It is hard to imagine myself in that kind of public confrontation...
...help from Louis Marx Jr., son of the toy magnate, and Dan W. Lufkin, a Wall Street broker, they bought the Norton Simon package as individuals for an estimated $5,000,000. That convinced Cousins he could get along with his new owners. "I rather like this display of gizzard," he said happily. "I can't turn away from anyone who believes in the Saturday Review as much as that...
...Your cover story on drugs [Sept. 26] makes it manifestly clear that today's youngster has something in his gizzard...