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...this by way of inaugurating a new feature of The Weekly What, the television volume. My prejudices in talking furniture will become clear over time, but I'll categorize a couple of my prejudices at the outset. First off, erudite t.v. strikes me as a contradiction in terms, and for that reason, WGBH rarely gets my vote. I prefer the hyperdramatic, particularly those wonderful best seller series with tons and tons of power struggles, crises, sex and the like. The standard fare--situation "comedies" and "dramatic" series--leaves me cold...
...must have a director who has the full confidence and support of and access to the President. That's the rationale for my leaving. I can well understand how somebody looking at me, with my varied past, which included partisan politics, would be less than certain at the outset that I would perform exactly the way a new Administration wanted. I was accused of [politicizing the agency] by some of the Senators when I came here, but I'd hope that my severest critics would concede that I've stayed the hell out of politics and been...
...pretentiousness of the film itself doesn't help matters. Welles looms onto the screen at the outset, his stupendous bulk cloaked in a magician's cape, pulling pennies out of a boy's mouth and making keys disappear. Next he jumps to his editing room, where he's making movie magic--cutting and splicing a documentary about another sleight-of-hand expert. Hungarian art forger Elmyr deHory. But also about deHory's biographer. Clifford Irving, a hoaxster in his own right. Have it straight so far? F for Fake is thus a cinematic illusion (movie), directed by a renowned beguiler...
...uncertain points of law been defined at the outset--had lawyers known what degree of separation from the mother constitutes birth or even what constitutes abortion--the Edelin case might never have come to court. The new majority opinion takes the first steps in forming some of these definitions. Even more importantly, the State Supreme Judicial Court must be commended for symbolically telling doctors that they needn't be frightened to perform abortions and women that they needn't be scared to ask for them...
...supporters, grim at the outset but suddenly fired-up as they interrupted Chirac 96 times during his speech, by all accounts called to mind the Frenchmen who have found anti-reform, authoritarian appeals attractive in the past, particularly during the pre-World War II depression. France is again suffering a severe economic crisis; after a decade of industrial boom, the average Frenchman is faced with bewildering jumps in both inflation and unemployment. The "little guy" has become fed up, and Chirac is capitalizing on this despair...