"You wanna deliver papers in a big city?" an expert with a bent nose told me, "then you gotta shake the trees to find the gorillas to do it. . . "
Only a few reporters. . . discerned that Anderson really combined Carter's ineptness with Reagan's simplicities.
I'm somewhat diffident about cuffing television on its rabbit ears for not being something else.
California: Sunny nutland.
Cheryl Ladd Special - One-hour long, one thought show of jigglevision.
The New York Times will tell you what is going on in Afghanistan or the Horn of Africa. But it is no exaggeration that The New York Times has more people in India than they have in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is a borough of two million people. They're not a Bloomingdale's people, not trendy, sophisticated, the quiche and Volvo set. The New York Times does not serve those people.
Television has borrowed from the carnival midway the barker's tease: "Coming Up Next: a Perfect 10" (Sex? Bo Derek? No, the weatherman comes on to say that tomorrow will be nice).
In Halberstram's fun house, television elected John F. Kennedy in 1960 (presumably Richard J. Daley and his precinct captains were at home on election night watching the Cook County ballots being counted on television).
Peter Damian
Vivek Wadhwa
Jim Courier
Chet Atkins
Tim Blake Nelson
Margaret Court
Steven Rattner
Otto Hermann Kahn
Sarah Emma Edmonds
Colin Morgan
June Havoc
Lee Unkrich
