Word: tabankin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today: "Most of the conversation is yours, I really mean it." She is talking to Marjory Tabankin, national director of VISTA, who is also trying hard to sell the idea of VISTA to the public. Unlike McGraw, she understands the organization and how it works; McGraw is simply one of the 50-odd "celebrities" asked by VISTA to do day-long publicity stints...
...silver screen appeal doesn't thrill the VISTA people, who wish she and reporters would stick to the issue--their promo campaign. Their prayers are answered when the van pulls off the highway in the South End and parks in front of a VISTA-run refuge for battered women. Tabankin is here to find out how well the VISTA program is working. McGraw is here to learn. As reporters look on, she speaks with the organizer of the home for a few minutes, and the first time she raises her voice above a whisper it is to ask, aghast...