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Finally, Rabin accuses both sides of turning serious negotiations into show-business competition on television: "Sadat and Begin remind me of the musical Annie Get Your Gun-anything you can do I can do better. It's a competition to see who will have more time on the American networks and space in the magazines and newspapers. Sometimes I ask myself, are they really serious, or is this a competition between actors...
...major proposals. "His first seven months were a total loss," admits Senate President William Brotherton, a Rockefeller ally. "He's not flamboyant, and that's a drawback. He states the facts like an accountant." Rockefeller does not demur from this judgment, but he likes to remind people, fairly enough, that he still has three years to go in his first term...
...hospitals, computers are programmed not only to remind the pharmacy department to prepare prescriptions but also to alert nurses to give the proper dosage at the right time. After a physician examines a patient at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, a report, including lab test results, is logged into a data bank. One of the hospital's more than 100 terminals will then handle the patient's history in an intelligible language infelicitously named MUMPS (an acronym for Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System...
...been playing these days, commercials might not be such a bad idea...Hmmm..."You're listening to the best in commercial radio, WBZ-FM Boston. That was Tom Carvel, from his Yonkers period, doing the classic 'Every Wednesday it's Sundae!' And now, cats and kittens, let me remind you that our request lines are open...Here's The Honorable Gov. James Longley of Maine, plugging his potatoes, on the way to the the impresario on duty assured me that...
...THIS INTERPLAY of tension and relief that saves Pippin time after time just after the viewer thinks the players have gone too far. The magic of Pippin is that--while confronting you with war, sex, disillusionment, love and politics--the play has the perspective to remind its audience that, "after all, this is only a musical comedy...