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...pieces, vignettes and profiles from the period spanning the last days of World War II and the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy TV debates. The book ends abruptly with Dean Acheson complaining that both candidates appeared too cold, calculating and boring. It is Halberstam's way of trying to freshen up an old point: that the debates, in which Nixon looked uncomfortably shifty and Kennedy came off as poised and decisive, changed forever the way politicians were packaged and sold...
...KIND OF IMPOSSIBLE-TO-FIND, mundane consumer product or another is treasured like gold. In Somalia the U.S. troops reportedly will trade just about anything for a nice box of HUGGIES. With clean water in such short supply in the stifling climate, everyone yearns for a chance to freshen up. According to an NBC cameraman who just returned from the front, war-weary journalists are bartering the diapers, which when moistened, provide a great rubdown, almost as good as a bath. Says he: "And they leave you smelling baby-powder fresh...
...drill into what appeared to be familiar American soil and found that they had somehow tapped into a wild- rushing subterranean stream of inchoate outrage and deranged violence. Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider, Dirty Harry and Fatal Attraction -- all these movies began as attempts to vary and freshen traditional generic themes but ended up taking their creators, and their audiences, on trips much deeper, darker, more disturbing than anyone imagined they were going to make...
...bright but brief, the heat evanesces, and all that lingers is a fond memory in the mind's eye. That is how it has gone for even the biggest stars, from Red Skelton to Walter Cronkite. NBC doubtless imagined it would be no different when it undertook to freshen the Today show by easing veteran co- anchor Jane Pauley toward the sidelines. But in the eight months since Pauley announced she would resign from the show, after seeing her role threatened by the advancement of the younger Deborah Norville, the fortunes of Today have steadily plummeted while Pauley's popularity...
Fashion-conscious Republicans know that it's better to look good than to feel good. So the folks at Clairol sponsored a "Freshen Up Lounge" where guests could see how they look in another hair color via color vision computer...