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...light, oscillating between extreme heat and cold--"abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one." A first reaction: as if among an audience, hearing a doubtful line, you are tempted to snicker, until looking around you see all the rest staying silent and sober, and the glint in the speaker's eye refusing to lighten his dead...
Tributes will be small consolation if in the end the two McGoverns' campaign falls short. The seemingly gloomy prospects do not daunt Eleanor. "My husband does not give up easily. And neither do I," she says with a glint in her eyes. Nor is Pat Nixon ebullient over certain success. "Listen," she says, "you can never worry too much about being an overdog. Politics is a funny business: you're up one day, down the next." Up or down, the other campaigners of 1972 have measurably warmed and enhanced the unprepossessing political landscape...
...Milwaukee. But there was an immediate protest that the ad was actually a volley of crew-cut propaganda. It did seem to play on any good burgher's fear of the standard counterculture sins: drugs and VD, the death of the work ethic, draft dodging, and maybe some glint of Charles Manson...
...tale was Rashomon in a James Bondian world, an intricate fantasy of scramblers on telephones and double identities, of 5 a.m. rendezvous in wigs and false beards, of exotic island fastnesses that pulse with secret electronics and the glint of fortunes in transit. Its protagonist could only be Howard Hughes, 67, the archetypal, anchoritic billionaire brooding over one of the world's great pools of wealth. He has always been an elusive, somehow haunted presence, sending out his commands from a bewildering entombment in desert or tropical hotels. Obsessively shy, devoted to intrigue, suspicious almost to the point of paranoia...
Even the Muppets were affected by alterations. For the first time in their history, one is being canned for selling out. Kermit the Frog is being canned for commercialism. When Sesame Street was just a glint in Joan Cooney's eye, Kermit taped a special in Canada. When it was given a network airing, the frog was compromised. Or so Henson decided. Like Jim Thorpe, Kermit played for money, and now must relinquish his amateur standing. He is being phased out of the show. He will be replaced by such Muppets as Lecturer Herbert Birdsfoot and Sherlock Hemlock, a bumbling...