Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showplace home near New Orleans. Only when he suspects the infidelity of his second wife, Margot, a brassy Texan worth $10 million, does Lancelot realize what he has made of his life: "I had done nothing but fiddle at law, fiddle at history, keep up with the news (why?), watch Mary Tyler Moore, and drink myself into unconsciousness every night...
...Watch the television local news after any big bank robbery. On-camera appears the bank spokesman, mindful of the bank's image as your friendly neighbor. He describes how polite the robbers were as they trussed up the teller: no threats, much courtesy. From the spokesman comes no outrage or even indignation; perhaps the next question provides the answer to that: the bank is fully covered by insurance. The robbers are made glamorous by their victims. Fagin, were he alive, would be adding public relations courses to his school for crime...
...million South Vietnamese refugees, left the Vietnamese countryside pockmarked with craters, and cost the lives of 50,000 American soldiers. A former CIA agent Emerson knew in Vietnam who lives now in New York told her, "It bores me, it's ancient history," adding, as he turned back to watch a T.V. football game, "I don't want to remember." An eighth grade history text has only a few paragraphs on the war. Apparently, it is easier for Americans to forget the country was ever involved in an ugly war than it is to live with the guilt. Angrily, Emerson...
Still, the evidence is not all in. Carter went off to the Kennedy Center one night last week to see Hal Holbrook perform as Mark Twain, a man who punctured self-important politicians. And the President planned to get over to the National Theater later to watch James Whitmore in Bully!, a roaring portrayal of Teddy Roosevelt. It might help when he gets there if Carter recalls that sometimes, when the sun was up and his juices were flowing, Roosevelt would knock off work at noon and take his family for a picnic down along the Potomac River. It might...
...live in baggage-claim areas and hotel suites. Last month she hit Washington as if it were any other one-night stand, sang at Jimmy Carter's Inaugural concert ("I was so nervous. My God, I was awful!") and then, on a whim, freighted on to Manhattan to watch a performance of NBC's Saturday Night show and to hang out with actors and rock friends. New York's Plaza, that swan-bosomed dowager among luxury hotels, has become a favorite roosting place for wealthy rockers (Ringo was there too). To Linda, the Plaza was just...