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Pick Up the Slack...
...long. To take up the slack, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS's parent organization, last week announced the allocation of $5 million toward a challenge grant intended to attract a matching amount from new subscribers. This will ease the squeeze by a couple of notches while stations pursue traditional forms of PBS cup rattling like phone-in pledge periods, televised auctions and fund-raising galas, like upcoming previews of the film Annie, which will aid more than 125 PBS affiliates. Other stations are more adventurous: North Dakota Public TV is raising money through legalized gambling parlors. Most radical...
...taken it into her head to seduce, will be around to catch a tantalizing glimpse of this or that secondary sexual characteristic. Since Zadora is the principal backer's wife, and this is nothing if not a vanity production, poor Keach is required at these moments to go slack-jawed with awe and wonder. As her looks may most charitably be described as an acquired taste, his persuasiveness in these scenes cannot be praised too highly. This is acting! But one cannot help thinking that if Zadora did less wriggling, slinking and twitching, propriety-not to mention the audience...
Harvard will go unrepresented in the hurdles as freshman standout Mariquita "Skeets" Patterson will devote herself to an attempt at a one-two finish with teammate Karen Cray in the pentathlon Junior Lenny Yajlma will have to take up Patterson's slack in the long jump. In the Big Time meet, Patterson took third in the event with a 5.26 meter effort...
...great once--a Gandhi or a King, say. They transformed people; they filled the oppressed with dignity, and the oppressor with shame, and they, sometimes, won their battles. But great men often carry their magic with them to the grave; what other way to explain the silence, the slack, when they are gone...