Word: lindsay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Into this void springs Politicks & Other Human Interests, almost straight from the brain of Thomas B. Morgan, former editor of The Voice in the pre-Rupert Murdoch days, and once press secretary to former New York Mayor John Lindsay. Morgan had the good fortune to be a protege of Gardner Cowles during the last days of Look magazine, and maybe even more important, to marry Nelson Rockefeller's daughter. Morgan tried to buy The Nation last year, but that deal fell through, and so Politicks was born. It looks very promising...
...determined to outdo the special effects of Star Wars-and reap its profits. "At one time it was exciting to see Superman hold up the end of a truck," says Tom Mankiewicz, the last of five scriptwriters brought in to turn comic strip into film strip. "Now you see Lindsay Wagner do things like that every week on TV for free. So we had a problem, and Superman's feats had to be very, very spectacular. We had to go whole...
Hundreds of millions in taxes were lost because of inefficiency in collection and favoritism in the assessment process. Construction projects were methodically milked at immense cost. The Lindsay administration, for instance, agreed to renovate Yankee Stadium as the means of keeping the team in New York. In 1972 the cost to the city was pegged at $24 million. Four years later it was $101 million-some $40 million more than the price of a larger and entirely new stadium in Michigan...
...until, surrounded by nothing but villainy, the reader grows weary and even skeptical. Substandard hyperbole ("We realized that behind almost every horror stood a banker") and doctrinaire populism ("They are making a desert and calling it a balanced budget") further reduce the authors' credibility. Invective obscures insight. John Lindsay was not merely an inadequate mayor but "a volunteer cuckold of the permanent government." The clubhouse crowd is condemned as "back-room dreck," though in fact it produces some good administrators...
...characters in Between the Lines come in pairs. Michael, a handsome writer selfishly intent on finishing his first novel, is married to vulnerable-looking Laura (Gwen Welles). Their opposite numbers are Harry (John Heard) and Abbie (Lindsay Crouse), a writer and photographer whose on-again, off-again relationship composes thz film's central thread. Heard is so blondly good-looking, gifted and vulnerable, that it's hard at times to understand Crouse's reluctance to stay paired up with him. The chief explanation the film offers is that Abbie is in some ways Michael's counterpart--as laden with egotism...