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...former CIA analyst, Samuel Adams to whom CBS paid $25,000. But Adams had previously made his case elsewhere and often: in congressional testimony, in court, in a Harper's article. To this old story CBS added the engrossing dramatics of witnesses defending themselves. The network also added hype, although it now regrets referring to a "conspiracy." Conceding some flaws in the preparation of the program, CBS still defends its accuracy. Using some on-camera witnesses of his own, Carter criticized CBS for lack of balance: "Even if you're sure of guilt, there's a vast...
...show of paintings and bronzes opened last week at the Leo Castelli gallery in New York's SoHo district, is the most promising of the artists who have emerged from Italy in the past few years, floating to New York City like putti on roseate, gaseous clouds of hype. Because they share the same initial and transplanted nationality, Chia, Enzo Cucchi, 32, and Francesco Clemente, 31, tend to be bracketed together as the "three Cs." In fact they are very different painters. Chia's light-operatic gifts have little in common with Cucchi's mucky, doom-laden...
...Solarz, a Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "Last month they were optimistic, saying the light was practically at the end of the tunnel. This month they're pessimistic, saying the end is at hand unless we take emergency action. So what do we have? A hype...
...artist, I wince at the motives of museums that feel impelled to hype art beyond its original intentions. It would have been better for Philip Morris and the Met to focus on the art of our time and support an understanding of the present...
After 251 episodes, 104 hours of enriching entertainment, M*A*S*H is preparing to complete the circle in a blaze of hype and hush-hush. In this week's episode (the last to be filmed), the 4077 troop buries a time capsule in anticipation of the war's end. For next week's 2½-hour finale, the company is maintaining a who-shot-J.R.-style secrecy in hope of snagging the highest single-show rating ever. "It's a very simple story," says Alda, who directed and helped write the final show...