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...nothing muted or polite about Moscow's alarm and impatience with the new Administration. In a series of interviews, Soviet observers have lashed out sharply not just against the Administration as a whole but against individuals in key positions. Says Georgi Arbatov, the U.S.S.R.'s chief America watcher and a member of the Communist Party Central Committee: "The people who have come to power are more ideological than almost any in the past. Many of them hate us blindly. I'm not necessarily talking about the top level, but at the next level there are biased zealots...
Media executives are getting nervous. ABC's New York studio fired five staff members, accusing them of using bogus questions on viewer-participation programs-earlier, an unlikely punishment for such an offense. It is hard enough as it is for a newspaper reader or television watcher to tell fact from fiction. On television, where the ability to create plausible fiction has run low, writers of "docudramas" put words never spoken by Churchill or Truman into their mouths. The confusion is compounded when the public is assured it is getting authentic words mouthed by actors...
...handed hitting outfielder hit .305 at Lodi last season with 25 homers, 102 runs batted in and 63 stolen bases, and is piling up big numbers against AAA pitching so far. "He can hit for power and average, and he'll be a great one," a Pacific Coast League-watcher said...
...cannot write well enough to bring Fiedler's evidently singular personality and career to life. Music buffs, if they concentrate hard, can probably glean from Dickson's anecdotes some sense of the excitement it must have been to work closely with Fiedler over the years, and feel the star-watcher's thrill at the Pops parade of brilliant guest performers; those who suffered through piano lessons and drillwork can catch the allusion and laugh at jazz pianist Oscar Peterson's assertion that his keyboard prowess can' from playing "lots and lots of Czerny when I was a kid." But what...
...utterances are gnomic and awesome: "Oh, the landscapes I have seen! And the people! The far wanderings of the Fremen and all the rest of it... You must remember that I have at my internal demand every expertise known to our history ... I am the most ardent people-watcher who ever lived. I watch them inside me and outside. Past and present can mingle with odd impositions in me ... I lave extremely acute hearing and vision, plus a sense of smell extraordinarily dis criminating ... You cannot hide very much from my senses...