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Problem is, recognizable though platform diving is, it still isn't football. And Olympic basketball, while it is basketball, is Olympic basketball, a suspenseless, unsettling metaphor for everything ugly about American world dominance, as our arrogant stars steamroll over tiny countries at as much risk as one of our air squadrons pounding a Third World nation from 35,000 feet up. No, NBC needs to embrace the weird, surprising, freaky side of this panoply of minor sport. Think of the Winter Olympics, in which American viewers have lately fallen in love with the luge, not because they've ever used...
...Tagi tribe formed a voting alliance that, if it stayed intact, would continue until they voted off every Pagong member, one by one, for five weeks - which, so far, they've done. The producers knew that. They knew, then, that they were looking at a month of suspenseless votes, as the Pagong lined up for the slaughter like veals. This, in its way, could be as dangerous as having people knowing the winner. So why not float a rumor that some of the Pagong made it to the Final Four? We smug viewers who bought it would tune in anyway...
Dark Hall. Giles' adult colleagues had their share of problems in trying to bring to life a historically important but generally suspenseless convention. Some publications reduced the scale of their coverage from 1972's levels. The New York Times, for instance, put 15 reporters inside the hall, about half a dozen fewer than it had dispatched to Miami four years ago. Esquire, which in past years has recruited such literary lights as Jean Genet, Arthur Miller and William Styron to illuminate the proceedings, this time opted to leave the darkness undisturbed...
...that moment, Humphrey thought he had absolute assurance from the White House that he would be Lyndon Johnson's running mate. But before the day was out, the President, milking the last drop of suspense from a generally suspenseless convention, was to give Humphrey a few bad moments. Hubert withstood them pretty well. And why not? He had already suffered and survived many a bad moment and many a disappointment during his up-and-down political career...
Summing Up. With its suspenseless and irrelevant plot, Danae probably has little chance of repertory performance outside Germany or Austria. But the production, with its gilt-encrusted costumes and scenery, and its overflow audience, neatly summed up the Salzburg...