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...from the simple, stylized sets to Elizabeth's jewel-encrusted costumes to the eloquent lighting. The final scene--Elizabeth's last hurrah--is superbly staged: the lights dim on each of the queen's advisers as they leave her one by one, until she sits alone, framed by a spotlight on her proud, lonely face. The effect is magnificent...
Kitty, Preston, and the rest of the chorus stand sweating in the spotlight as the audience applauds. The curtain falls and everyone moves en masse--despite the home-grown quality of these aristos, they do everything in a foreign language--to the bar. People begin looking for the Right People...
Some detractors have wanted to put him on an even tighter leash. One campaign adviser suggested that if Ford visits the Middle East next month, he should leave Kissinger at home so the President would not have to share the spotlight...
...procession of stories that make the front page or 60 seconds on network television constitutes the daily brush between the run-of-the-mine reporter and the run-of-the-mine businessman, with the latter caught in the glare of the spotlight. Here is where we are fed a daily diet of authoritative ignorance, most of which conveys a cheap-shot hostility to business and businessmen. Here is where the nation sees a persistently distorted image of its most productive and pervasive activity, business. The fact is most general reporters and editors are woefully ignorant of the complexities and ambiguities...
After Gerald Ford took his widely televised spill on the ski slopes at Vail, Colo., Press Secretary Ron Nessen berated reporters for neglecting the President's accomplishments in office to spotlight his unfortunate footwork outside the White House. Last week syndicated Columnist Max Lerner, a liberal, added a complaint that the press has created an undeserved "ordeal of ridicule" for Ford that "will affect not only his personal showing against Reagan, which isn't so important for the nation, but also the Administration conduct of foreign and domestic policy, which is." Americans, said Lerner, "can afford to distinguish...