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Graham is a lot more interesting than the musical talent on display, which is mostly mediocre. The Grate ful Dead and the New Riders of the Pur ple Sage, virtually interchangeable parts of the same group, dispense a couple of good tunes, but Santana and Boz Scaggs are disappointing compared with some of their recent recordings. As for the Elvin Bishop Group and Quicksilver Messenger Service, they sound like washouts from Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts...
Political Probing. With such guests, and with less imposing ones from movie starlets to oddball hobbyists, Barbara is alternately breathy and brittle, cool and aggressive. Her technique is a model, to some observers, of what makes an interview great; to others, of what makes an interview grate. Recently Russian Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko was so nonplussed by her political probing ("Why are you allowed to travel while many other Russian writers cannot?") that he later de scribed her off the air as "a hyena in syrup...
...armchair "that we brought from California." This is the room where he met with Henry Kissinger to plan the China trip. Occasionally he smokes a pipe or a cigar here. There is a fireplace he likes to have kept burning and high-fidelity speakers on either side of the grate. His tapes, cartridges and phonograph are in a large walk-in closet near the door to the sitting room. He prefers melodious classics: Van Cliburn playing Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff; the theme music from Doctor Zhivago and Victory...
...British never seem to lack for good playwrights. They have an uncanny gift for writing well about their nation even when they think ill of it. They can poke peevishly in the guttering embers of empire and the grate of memory flickers with glories past. David Storey has an option on this territory, and he looks back more in grief than in anger. He searches for the severed link with the imperial past. How did today's termites, he seems to ask, descend from yesterday's titans? He is a dramatic laureate of loss...
Relevant Schmaltz. Controls of any sort grate on the American spirit, and the controls in Phase II will have to be endured for a long time. Nixon promised an eventual return to free markets. "We are not going to make controls a permanent feature of American life," he said. But he carefully did not specify any termination date. Connally insists that the restraints will hang on until "we have erased from the minds of people the idea that they are living in a society where there is going to be nothing but continuing inflation...