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...editing. One former CBS producer recalls how "I spent much of my time making Eisenhowers sound like Demostheneses." But bias, conscious or unconscious, sometimes leads an editor to play down those parts of a speech, news conference or interview to which he is unsympathetic. Bias aside, TV cutters frequently overplay the sensational element in a statement and miss the sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Art of Cut and Paste | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

Masker will be in the lineup tonight, and, after a 23-point and 14-rebound performance against Penn two weeks ago, has bolstered the Big Green middle. In December, without Masker in the Dartmouth lineup. Harvard could afford to overplay the Indians' two main scorers. Paul Erland and James Brown...

Author: By Jonathan P. Carlson, | Title: Indians Challenge Cagers Tonight | 1/19/1971 | See Source »

Radical movements in this nation, though, have a tendency to assume that they are the equals of the existing powers, and they often overplay themselves. Where did the seven days of rage in Chicago get the movement? Where did the Wisconsin and New York bombings...

Author: By David F. White, | Title: ????????? | 12/9/1970 | See Source »

...MISER. Robert Symonds plays Harpagon in this revival of Moliere's comedy at the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater. His tendency to overplay is precisely right for this petty monster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 20, 1969 | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

Robert Symonds brings this miserable creature to robustious life in his best performance yet with the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater. Although he is always an actorish actor, his tendency to overplay is precisely right for this petty monster of farce. Skittering about like a bespectacled magpie, Symonds' Harpagon is a sprite of the cashbox, an imp of interest rates, a tooth-clacking, raggedy-cloaked, stringy-haired witch of usury. To see him is a pleasure. To see him undone is a delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: Money, Money, Money | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

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