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...first issue of New Times, out last week, is a slight letdown. Handsomely packaged, often stylishly written, Volume I, No. 1 does not quite live up to its billing. "Part of the excitement of putting together this magazine," Hirsch writes, "is that you never know what will happen when you unleash hardworking, honest reporters and ask them to bring back the truth." What sometimes happens, evidently, is that they bring back truths that fail to startle...
Overall, the first impression was a letdown after the advance publicity that suggested Quinn would threaten Today Show Hostess Barbara Walters' ten-year feminine hegemony on early-bird TV. Even with such a smashing blonde anchor person it was a cheeky assumption for CBS to make, especially when that anchor person's previous television experience was mainly as an assistant to CBS News President Richard Salant during the 1968 conventions-and as a onetime guest on Walters' Not For Women Only. Little wonder that on a publicity tour for the new show, one interviewer greeted Quinn acidly...
...about Tango in Paris six months before the movie hits the country. Everybody spends six hot months panting to see the eroticism that shall change the face of cinema. No movie could live up to such a snowball of projected fantasy. So when it finally arrives and the inevitable letdown is assured, scads of critics jump on the anti-Kael bandwagon. And after a few months of their negativism, it has become radical to like the movie. By this time like or dislike has little, if anything, to do with the subject at hand...
...Springfield didn't look real good yesterday afternoon," coach Loyal Park said. "Our guys were just tired, more mentally then physically. Not to take anything away from Springfield, but with a schedule as long as ours [35 games], a letdown like this is almost to be expected. I'm just glad it didn't come in the playoffs...
...psyched and out-swum everybody for so long that it took me until after the meet was over to realize that Harvard had refused to fold, and had, if anything, out-psyched Yale. The Elis, after two tough wins against Dartmouth and Princeton, may have been due for a letdown, and while Harvard swam its best times in every single race, Yale had trouble matching its times of a week...