Word: kinsley
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...years by the conservative intellectual William F. Buckley Jr., the show taped its final installment, which will air on PBS stations the week of Dec. 26. Blue and white balloons had been set out to leaven the gloom, as had a panel of younger pundits, including Michael Kinsley and William Kristol. Their conversation was unhurried and intelligent, as it always is on Firing Line. Watching it all, you couldn't help thinking that something more than a TV show was passing away...
...conventions of the TV talk show, circa 1999, inflate the trivial and trivialize the important. Watching Hardball's Chris Matthews bark at his guests about tax plans and sex scandals, you wonder why his guests don't cover themselves with dentist's smocks to fend off the flying spittle. Kinsley recalls that as co-host of Crossfire, the CNN shoutfest, he once disagreed with a guest in too civil a tone. "No, no!" the producer shouted into his earpiece...
...work of 80 journalists is included, with a nice sampling of memorable reportage from the home front: Norman Mailer on both the 1967 march on the Pentagon and the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago; James Michener's intricate reconstruction of the Kent State killings; Michael Kinsley on the revolt of the Harvard intellectuals against their friend and colleague Henry Kissinger, to name...
Sorrento worked and joked around with now-famous Crimson editors-including Microsoft president Steven C. Balmer '77, commentator Michael E. Kinsley '72 and Clinton defense attorney Nicole Seligman '78-when they were young, scared and comping The Crimson...
...KINSLEY IS KING...