Word: reads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ridiculous and copious detail. Geoffrey Cowan promises to take us behind the scenes to the "backstage battle over sex and violence in television." Cowan has seen too many Barnaby Jones episodes for his own good. He's in the habit of telling you what happened first and then spending (read: wasting) 30 or 40 pages telling you why. By the time you get through the intricate details of whose wife was accompanying who on what vacation that got interrupted by what's his name's telephone call you're too bored to care...
...Evil is the author's approach. Trying desperately to write what he calls a "dramatic narrative" of the events, Cowan lapses into description of events that no judge could fault for being incomplete. Awkwardly referring to his own role in the fight, Cowan's legalistic style makes the book read like The Daily Variety...
...letters, which gave him a chance to consult at his leisure with his chief strategist, General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, before committing himself to any positions. In fact, when asked at an open meeting about his policy on naming buildings after unsavory characters, he could only reply "Read my letter...
...meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, President Bok, purporting to add a new "strand of complexity" to the South Africa debate, read a letter from a prominent clerygman asserting that it is, in fact, virtually impossible for multinational firms to "withdraw" from South Africa. Presumably, we are to infer from this that the efforts of the international anti-apartheid movement are futile...
...sick kid, I used to get all kinds of diseases...yeah, eating dirt, like...I lived in New Jersey and wrote poetry when I was really young. And I was always thinkin', 'Why don't all these people just leave me alone, andand, and let me read my comics and stare at my hand or write poetry or sing, or or, just take it easy. And I guess it's good that I can sing about it, but it's like a tragedy because there are a lot of people who can't sing and they listen to the radio...