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White House staff problems, of course, are presidential problems. The men and women working at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue are only as good as their boss allows them to be. Yet there are levels of competence and honor that each person controls. Watergate cried out for one bright young man to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Persistent Perils of Inner-Circle Vision | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

Brooks and Keaton changed the character of Theresa perceptibly. Author Rossner described a chilly, rather unpleasant woman, and Keaton's Theresa is likable and warm, especially in her relationship with her sister, played by Tuesday Weld. So questions arise. Is Theresa too solid to be believable later as the victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Death and La - De - Dah | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

Page's direction undermines more than the story. As the heroine Debby, Kathleen Quinlan conveys the fear, isolation, anger and occasional joy of the schizophrenic convincingly, but Page's failure to do more than superficially explain why she feels these emotions makes it difficult to empathize with what could have...

Author: By Anna Clark, | Title: Wilted Roses | 9/21/1977 | See Source »

WHATEVER PETTY financial conflicts, unpleasant personality traits or questionable musical taste were associated with him, Stokowski's positive progressive instinct surfaced steadily and surely. To Stokowski the sound an orchestra produced and the reaction it drew from an audience were more important than anything else in a concert. If this...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: The Baton Also Rises | 9/20/1977 | See Source »

The blame belongs to Harris, not the show's talented cast. For all the trouble this writer has taken to reproduce Mary Hartman's formula, she has left out its essential ingredient-compassion. Mary Hartman presented its admittedly loony characters with such affection that audiences cared about them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoint: Soap, Betty & Rafferty | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

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