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...This one-man disaster area hardly resembles a detective lieutenant of police, much less the hero of a successful television series. But he is both. He is Peter Falk as Columbo, on the NBC series of the same name. Every fourth week, some 37 million viewers tune in avidly to watch him shamble, sniffle, fidget, mutter and gesticulate his way through a case. The fans may be slower to pounce on a clue than he is. But usually they anticipate their favorite Columbo routines-deceptively plodding, cunningly naive-and see them coming a mile off, which is half...
...much longer can the country afford a musical-chairs Government conducted by a one-man band? Impeach and convict the man and get this country back on its feet. This can't be the America they taught me about in fifth grade...
...tide-waved weeds; schools of fish gliding instinctively past each other without colliding; the expert crafting from scratch of Tom's skiff; the art of guiding that provides a framework within which Skelton makes his last ditch attempt to integrate his psyche with the natural world. Guiding is a one-man job, but Hemingway style requires full exertion of Skelton's intellect, intuition and physical strength in mastering fishing equipment and tides, navigating channels and neighboring keys, and sniffing out the big permit runs...
AMERICA'S low tolerance for turmoil and its self-generated alienation from politics may well cause the trend towards one-man rule to accelerate so that executive rule becomes accepted in name as well as deed. One cannot afford to overlook the possibility that the illusion of republicanism will be dispensed with and that the United States will set out on the road of dictatorship and autocracy. It is not an enviable possibility, but a real possibility nevertheless...
Although Zero Mostel used to quip that he banked his money in his art books filed under Monet, art is no joke to the comic actor. A painter for 40 years, Zero had his first one-man show of more than 60 recent paintings and collages in Manhattan. "Let the paintings speak for themselves," he declared. And so they do, but in the accents of modern masters like Dubuffet, Klee and Miró. Zero's authentic voice can best be savored these days as he cavorts in a national touring company production of A Funny Thing Happened...