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Writer Jack Skow started out thinking the story was simple enough. "Then," he says, "I found myself feeling as if I were trying to stop 4,000 Ping Pong balls from rolling off a table." Trying to pin down the mystique of Muppet mania, Skow first tried to attack the question scientifically, only to throw up his hands cheerfully in the end. Says he: "The trick in writing the story was to analyze the magic without destroying...
...conservative reaction by indicating that normalization would lead eventually to a bonanza for the American economy. He spoke to reporters glowingly of "the new vista for prosperous trade relationships with almost a billion people." U.S. trade with the mainland now totals only about $1 billion a year. Says Ping-ti Ho, an expert on China at the University of Chicago: "The reason the Chinese have not bought from the U.S. is largely related to the absence of full diplomatic relations. Normalization will remove this barrier...
...fingers separate, the mouth opens. If the Muppet's face is pliable, as Kirmit's is?he is not much more than a green felt sock that fits over a human hand, with a wide pink split for the mouth and what look like glued-on halves of Ping Pong balls for eyes?the clenchings and wrigglings of the operator's fist can change the expression with considerable subtlety. Not simply smiles, but wistful smiles are possible. If the face is relatively stiff, like that of Kermit's formidable friend Miss Piggy ( her head is carved from a block...
Then there is Goldman's script, which refuses to make up in wit what it lacks in thrills Goldman chooses instead to litter his dialogue with allegedly with-it references (from Steve Martin to the Four Seasons restaurant), as if sheer name drop ping might pass for sophistication...
SATURDAY. While Begin stays in his cottage during Sabbath, others play Ping Pong and billiards. Sadat again up early, walking in woods, stays aloof even from his own delegation. Vance Aide Harold Saunders, after nightlong labors, produces first draft of American proposals. Americans spend all day working through three more drafts. (There will ultimately...