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...contemporary to be authentic, brings some new life to tired old combat comedy situations, and here and there some jewels sparkle: during an exchange of insults, one soldier is told, "You got enough ugly to open a branch face." In what must be an inevitable comparison with the scalpel wit and truly black comedy of M*A*S*H*, however, the sad fact is that Roll Out seems as old-fashioned...
...Courtship of Eddie's Father series), who would have a whole new bag of flamboyant tricks with which to play the cops-and-robbers game. In practice, however, The Magician's sleight of hand is only a shade more unbelievable than its slight-of-wit plots. In one recent episode, Bixby rescued a kidnaped blonde nightclub singer whose will to live he had once (sob!) magically restored after she had been scarred in a fire-aided, of course, by the deductive wizardry of his "paraplegic genius" sidekick. Another episode began with Bixby in love with a sweet young...
...obscure model. For they include Burr's own memoirs as dictated to Charlie, his would-be biographer. The Burr sections are Vidal's skillful précis of Aaron Burr's actual letters and diaries, containing intimate justifications for his adventures and intrigues. Burr, the sardonic wit, constantly sees through labels like Republican and Federalist to such common denominators as hunger for glory, power and the preservation of privilege. He talks of Washington's "eerie incompetence" as a military leader, while admiring the man's "fine talent for defeating rival generals in the Congress." Burr...
...King's Men is based on Robert Penn Warren's fictionalization of Huey Long's career. A famous wit once remarked of Long's fall that no one could put him together again because he was dead...
Cosell apparently values his wit more than any other quality, and his book gives him a chance to display it in all its dismalness. For example, he recalls the time he and his "Monday Night Football" co-star, Don Meredith, were visiting the Detroit Lions' training camp. Near them was Bobby Williams, a black member of the team. "Suddenly I turned to Williams," Cosell writes, "and said, 'You know, of course, that Meredith has no use for you black players...