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HALSMAN: All my life I was more interested in the functioning of the human psyche than in the functioning of machines. Watching the ever changing expressions of a face, I could often read the thoughts and emotions of my interlocutor. Thus, immediately the face became the main subject of my photography. I was not adverse to photographing still-lifes, street scenes or landscapes, but the capturing of an expression that reflected the essence of a human being seemed of greater import...
Says he: "The moderator could toss a coin to see who starts off and then let them go at each other." Adds Journalism Professor Edward P. Bassett of the University of Southern California: "All that's needed is an interlocutor who can keep them at each other's throat." But another panelist, New Yorker Correspondent Elizabeth Drew, disagrees. Says she: "At least we had the opportunity to inject reality. I don't think it would be too good to have Ford saying, 'Jimmy, is it true you want to increase spending...
...Cavett as bright as he seems? A serious man in an unserious business? This book sets out to prove that he is. It is cast in the semispecious form of a talk show with Cavett the guest. His host-interlocutor is Christopher Porterfield, who was once Cavett's roommate at Yale and now acts as executive producer for Cavett's production company...
...took on health and, without drawing much blood, did at least pink such vulnerable targets as Americans' hypochondria, overcrowded waiting rooms, and the inadequacies of health insurance ("At today's prices, the only one who can afford to be sick is Howard Hughes"). The program's interlocutor, Gene Kelly, did not dance, and his material did not sing. Most of the sting in the first two weeks came from sassy Teresa Graves (formerly of Laugh-In) and the blue-collar couple, Warren Berlinger and Pat Finley. The elderly Burt Mustin and Queenie Smith were wry and especially...
Installed in the Bastille. "In the future," pledges Faure, the ministry "will serve as an interlocutor between the universities and the government-but never again as a dictator." As proof of his intentions, he brought in as his top adviser one of the ministry's chief antagonists: Gerald Antoine, rector of Orleans-Tours University. Says Antoine: "A good way to take over the Bastille is to be installed within...