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Lehrer teamed up with journalist Robert B.W. MacNeil to cover the U.S. Senate Watergate hearings in 1973. The duo anchored the hearings live on PBS for 47 days and subsequently scored an Emmy Award...
...first lesson is that television has replaced clocks and calendars as an index of significant events. Martin, the narrator, recalls the moment when his wife introduces the subject of divorce: "Alex had turned to me during one of those postcard breaks on MacNeil-Lehrer and said she thought we'd be better off if we just forgot the marriage." As the legal wrangling winds down, Martin flies off for no apparent reason to stay at the motel on Florida's Gulf Coast managed by his sister-in-law Dominica. Before long, the two of them are in bed together, with...
...MacNeil wasn't born with a silver corkscrew in her hand. She grew up in a working-class Boston family, contracted polio at 15 months and was paralyzed until she was 8. MacNeil ran away from home at 14 and put herself through high school in Reno, Nev., by waiting tables in a coffee shop and cleaning hotel rooms on weekends. At 16 she began having a glass of cheap wine with dinner every night, an escape from her daily struggle to survive. "When you have no money, food and drink become an inordinate pleasure," she says...
...realized this was what I loved, the world of flavor," she says. She educated herself about the industry by writing food and wine articles for women's magazines and making trips to wine-producing regions in Europe. In those days, wine was very much a man's world. MacNeil found herself excluded from tastings and was once left waiting for three hours at an airport by Spanish winemakers who, unaccustomed to the idea of a woman wine writer, overlooked her in the terminal. But dogged perseverance finally got her admitted to the inner circle of wine critics...
...Savor Karen MacNeil shows why wine isn't just for snobs...