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Says Actor Robert Gulp, a two-time heavy on Columbo: "In a series the one thing that matters is how much in love with the star the audience is; the rest is nonsense." The audience certainly seems to have fallen for Falk. He gets some 300 fan letters a week. Everywhere he goes, he is introduced to policemen who are nicknamed-or call themselves -Columbo. Currently, Falk heads TV Q, the TV networks' semisecret survey of stars ranked according to their familiarity and likability...
...they shied from admitting that art was what they found. Here is what would happen: you enter the exhibit and the first thing you see is a green flashing light. You automatically start to go in the direction it points, and then you realize with a foolish feeling gulp that this is the exhibit you came to see. You wonder if you have been made the butt of a fast one. And plenty were plainly wondering. It was as if a whole system of patterned responses had been planted in everybody's brain. One such response was pitched...
...possible explanation of the sect's success in the U.S. is that the Guru Maharaj Ji is indeed (gulp) God. If this is an unpalatable hypothesis, there are more mundane explanations. Perhaps the attraction is to a group with all the psychic benefits of old-time religion, but without the stigma attached to them in a liberal society...
...returnable beverage bottle has become a sort of industrial relic. So has that once hallowed implement to puncture beer cans, the "church key." But their more convenient replacements-the no-deposit, no-return bottle and the pull-tab can-are now too much in evidence. Americans annually gulp the contents of some 40 billion bottles and 50 billion cans. The one-time-only use results in massive littering...
Even granting that Rawls' consistency can be realized, other dangers are still clear. Officials may well cease abuses which they cannot justify at a hearing; but they may also duck making needed decisions to avoid the trouble of defending their actions. Kenneth Gulp Davis, a top scholar at the University of Chicago, unintentionally conjures up another danger in his standard work, Discretionary Justice. "The 1968 version of the Federal Tax Regulations," he says, "fills 4,400 double-column pages, a truly magnificent body of law." But surely that is a body only a lawyer could love. The idea...