Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard-bitten nice guy for a change-namely, a New York City police lieutenant. Savalas-three-piece suits, thick stogie, shaved head and all-makes the most of it, giving the kind of magnetic, idiosyncratic performance that can carry a show. He is aided by scripts and direction that reveal a sharp feeling for the city's tough lingo, roach-infested tenements and lurid neon street scenes. Last week Kojak solved the murder of a topless go-go dancer. The key clue that allowed him to trace the dead girl: the scars from silicone treatments on her breasts...
Lately Thomas bills his book as "an objective reappraisal of The Senator Joseph McCarthy Affair," which gives us cause for hope; to underline the point, he subtitles it, "A Story Without a Hero." But if you thought that this dispassionate study would strip away the polemics and reveal the historical significance of the political turnaround in mid-twentieth century America, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. Thomas fell into the onion trap; he was so busy stripping away he forgot to leave anything over; and his book, to switch vegetables, has all the force of a squeezed lemon...
...disjointed narrative has its advantages. Schuyler's research is used to fill in Burr's background, to reveal little tidbits of bastardy that Burr could not plausibly put in his memoirs. More importantly, by purporting to include portions of Burr's own memoirs, Vidal can ascribe motives to Burr's activities throughout the man's public career...
When the story of Nixon's phone call first broke in the New York Times, the newspaper did not reveal its sources. But Cox had been told about the conversations by Kleindienst as his staff probed the whole ITT affair. Cox conceded that he might have been an indirect source of the Times story because he had "carelessly" mentioned the Nixon intervention to two Democratic Senators, Edward Kennedy and Philip Hart, and some of their assistants. He said he felt terrible about this. The White House eagerly pounced on Cox and his staff, calling the action "an inexcusable breach...
Raised Eyebrows. Other White House memos from 1969 to 1971 reveal the galvanic effect of critical items on the President's men. In the July 17, 1970, issue of LIFE, Chet Huntley, then about to retire from NBC, was quoted on Nixon: "The shallowness of the man overwhelms me; the fact that he is President frightens me." White House aides were apoplectic. Magruder wrote a memo recommending 18 separate "follow-ups" to the Huntley remark, including the planting of a column on news objectivity, the recruitment of a journalism-school dean to speak on press fairness as a serious...