Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boss at the Minneapolis TV station on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Lou Grant may not have Kojak's sexy bravado or the punk élan of TV's younger male heartthrobs, but he is someone TV viewers can actually recognize from experience: Lou is 50, overweight, smart, tired, compassionate, full of disappointments and yet sturdy enough to survive. In the never-never land of television, a man of such lifelike dimensions looks very much like a king...
...director, Jeb Stuart Magruder. For his role in obstructing the probe, Mitchell this year began serving a 2½-to eight-year term while Magruder got out of prison in January 1975 after having served seven months. Nixon professes nothing but "compassion" for Mitchell, who, he says, was "too smart to ever get involved in a stupid jackass thing like Watergate." But, alas, Mitchell "could only think of that poor Martha and that lovely child Marty, and so that's the human side of this story...
...minutes of taped conversations between Nixon and Aide H.R. (Bob) Haldeman? Nixon says he has no idea-but he does know who did not do it. "I didn't touch the machine," he says. Secretary Rose Mary Woods? Nor she, he says. "She's so smart, she'd a done a ... she'd destroyed a lot more." Nixon also explains why the press kept picking on him. His basic problem, he says, is that "I'm not a lovable...
...reptilian Haldeman/Ehrlichman and John Houseman's phlegmatic John Mitchell, all of the President's self-serving men are bland. The many familiar TV actresses in the cast are interchangeable, and so are the canned romantic subplots in which they appear. The series would have been smart to leave at least most of Washington's bedroom doors closed...
...continued to go through the test exercises, getting in some additional practice for the final 1977 water test next month outside Detroit. Elaine Lehr, a Mount Holly, N.J., breeder who spends an hour a day training her handsome Landseer Newfoundland, Sebastian, explained the sport's appeal: "Newfoundlands are smart with sweet dispositions. Training them isn't work. Besides, they are among the few dogs you can train to do something that still has a place in this world. As long as people swim, there will be a job for Newfs. How many sheep need herding in New Jersey...