Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ride with a coworker, Buell Wesley Frazier, to make a rare weeknight visit to his estranged wife in a Dallas suburb; he claimed that he wanted to pick up some curtain rods. Although his rented room in Dallas had all its needed rods, next day he carried a long, thin package in brown paper to work with Frazier. On this day-the day of the assassination -Oswald spurted some 50 feet ahead of his friend instead of walking, as he usually did, with him from the parking lot to the building...
That kind of approach works fine for presidential campaign biographies and The Lou Gehrig Story, but it's pretty thin stuff for serious historical scholarship. The result is a tedious, one-dimensional narrative that reveals little about Rayburn the Speaker or Rayburn the man. Steinberg generally hovers at the level of cliche, as in his description of young Rayburn's reaction to a speech by Texas Congressman Joe Bailey: "With a prophecy born of youthful excitement, he predicted that one day he would also become a congressman like Bailey...
...scramble to success, Reeves has had to spread himself thin-too thin, according to Harper's editors, who did not renew his one-year arrangement with the magazine in 1972. But Reeves has recently been trying to reduce his commitments. Last May he left the TV job with relief ("I felt like Barbara Walters in drag"), and plans to write only one more book about politics; it will be on the 1976 campaign. "After that, maybe I'll get a cabin and write fiction," Reeves says. "I love politics. It's more interesting than the National Football...
...Thin and Thin. Where have all the people gone? Can it be that for once they believed the critics, who, upon previewing the new season, unanimously declared it unfit for human consumption? Is there a silent protest? Possibly. But there is not and never has been any such thing as a really good television season, and though this may be the absolute worst, that has to be a distinction so fine as to require deliberation by a board of moral philosophers. No one has yet determined how many bad ideas can dance on the pinhead of a network programming executive...
...contempt, but novelty of another sort has probably proved much more upsetting. In this more cynical opinion, Americans in their role as viewers are not very adventurous. They dote on old pals-Marcus, Archie, Dear Little Mary. They have gone through a lot with them and are loyal through thin and thin. They even resent seeing their good buddies shoved out of old time slots. This year the ludicrous family viewing hour forced unprecedented tinkering with new shows and much rescheduling. CBS and NBC compounded this upset with lineups filled with new programs that turned out to be heavy losers...