Word: vaughn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drama. His glib tongue seldom strained to reduce the quirks of everyday life to irresistibly quotable witticisms or the sentiments of his countrymen to stirring rhetoric. Schary's script, however, never allows enough room for the full power of Roosevelt's formidable personality, as portrayed by the ubiquitous Robert Vaughn, to reveal itself. Before a scene can build sufficient dramtic tension, an unsatisfying and petty denouement intrudes. Before the audience can become relaxed with Roosevelt's humorous side, the script plunges both character and crowd into the tedium of yet another event. In an effort to include as many "events...
Most of those well-known characters-the real-life participants in Watergate-were not talking about the series. Some of them, like H.R. Haldeman, portrayed by Robert Vaughn with cool viciousness, are now in prison. Surprisingly, one who comes to Haldeman's defense is Herb Klein, communications director for 5½ years in the Nixon White House, who eventually quit as the Watergate investigations were growing. Says he: "The overcentered power of Haldeman is inaccurate. He's a tough guy who ran a tight ship, but he wasn't a Nazi dictator." The fictional Klein character...
...acting, as in all miniseries, is wildly uneven. Except for Robert Vaughn's reptilian Haldeman/Ehrlichman and John Houseman's phlegmatic John Mitchell, all of the President's self-serving men are bland. The many familiar TV actresses in the cast are interchangeable, and so are the canned romantic subplots in which they appear. The series would have been smart to leave at least most of Washington's bedroom doors closed...
Scientology Spokesman Vaughn Young denounced the raids as the work of "little Hitlers" and a "Gestapo police state." Scientology lawyers went to court to demand the return of the seized material and a gag order forbidding the authorities to reveal what they had found. Although the matter quickly bogged down in legal technicalities, most observers predicted eventual court approval for continuation of the probe...
...statement attributed to Vaughn Wood of Southwestern, that returning students "have the responsibility for reaching the company's future employees" is completely inaccurate. First, because the students are not employees, and second, because student managers do not have the responsibility of reaching future student dealers. We do, as District Sales Managers. Student managers may if they choose answer questions, explain the program to interested students, and let people know about off-campus interviews...