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Watergate, a five-hour documentary series produced for the BBC by Norma Percy (The Second Russian Revolution), narrated by former CBS and CNN correspondent Daniel Schorr and airing next week on the Discovery Channel, is a refresher course that shouldn't be missed. Lucid and laconic, unsparing but never sanctimonious, it retells the Watergate story in patient, no-nonsense detail. Here, once again, is the paranoid Nixon White House of the early '70s, so obsessed with political foes that it had a psychiatrist's office burglarized to get dirt on Daniel Ellsberg (who had released the Pentagon papers) and ordered...
...Eisenhower the Supreme Commander was none of those. He was a driving, demanding man of terrific energy: up before dawn, to bed after midnight, chain-smoking four packs of cigarettes, drinking 15 cups of coffee a day. He was a military perfectionist, impatient with his subordinates and a peerless, lucid briefer. He had a volcanic temper he struggled to control but sometimes used as a tool. He was naturally friendly, with a famous grin, and he inspired trust. But he was patient only when he had to be: to keep peace among the Allies, since he believed the war would...
With New York glittering below. The world, I am told, is full of those notes, always handwritten and lucid and spontaneous -- and always correct. "The notes were the way she was intimate" with outsiders, said a friend. The only insiders, really, were her family...
...bizarre politics of the nation he fought against for so long. On his return from that trip, he stopped in Washington, where he lectured a room packed with members of America's foreign policy establishment. He spoke for 90 minutes without notes and drew a standing ovation for his lucid presentation. On the day that an embolism struck him mute, page proofs for his last book arrived at his office...
Johnny's snappy and bitter dialogue combined with his penchant to answer a questions with another question, makes the pace of the film move very fast. His psycho-babble seems off-putting at first his lucid, outrageously original ideas surface from all of the verbage. This technique, combined with the Johnny's vagabond lifestyle, allows Leigh to put Johnny in unexpected yet realistic situations. For instance, a security guard wants Johnny to quit loitering in front of the empty building he protects. When the guard opens the door, Johnny embarks on a diatribe about how the security guard is goig...