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Overall, the first impression was a letdown after the advance publicity that suggested Quinn would threaten Today Show Hostess Barbara Walters' ten-year feminine hegemony on early-bird TV. Even with such a smashing blonde anchor person it was a cheeky assumption for CBS to make, especially when that anchor person's previous television experience was mainly as an assistant to CBS News President Richard Salant during the 1968 conventions-and as a onetime guest on Walters' Not For Women Only. Little wonder that on a publicity tour for the new show, one interviewer greeted Quinn acidly...
...memo goes on to divide the extremists into two categories: violent and "socalled" nonviolent. The first embraces those who advocate and practice arson, fire bombing and destruction of property; also skyjackers, prison rioters and people who threaten public officials or distribute publications urging revolution. The nonviolent category includes those who burn their draft cards, participate in May Day demonstrations, "organize and attend rock festivals which attract youth and narcotics," travel to Cuba, Algeria and North Viet Nam, or "aid in funding the sale of firearms to the Irish Republican Army and Arab terrorists." Writes Flynn: "There is evidence from classified...
Hulot, on the other hand, is just a pleasantly boring presence, a cipher who shows no feelings beyond a spaniel-like curiosity and momentary flutters of frustration that never approach the level of anxiety, let alone threaten him with breakdown. He and the people he encounters are scarcely less abstract than their settings, juiceless and lifeless. Going to a Tati movie for laughs is about as practical as going to an exhibition of Mondrian paintings with the same goal in mind, though the painter may actually excel the actor in terms of motion and emotion. · Richard Schickel
...company tried to conduct business as usual for as long as possible. In Sampson's view, ITT is not merely a multinational giant but a state within states, a moral chameleon that will do business with any complaisant regime and try to prevent the election of politicians who threaten the corporate interests...
Argentina. It sounds good at first. Argentinians of all political persuasions this week blasted some documents produced by a functionary at the American embassy which warned that some legislation facing the Peronist-dominated Legislature would hurt foreign investment and threaten the long-term interests of Argentina...