Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President, "You'll be looking through that door and knowing that practically everybody who walks through it wants something out of you. You'll learn what a lonely job this is, and you'll discover the need for somebody like Harry Hopkins, who asks for nothing except to serve...
...sake. They were trying to create a country, not destroy it." Critics were rebuffed. Among them is Rabbi Arnold Wolf, Jewish chaplain at Yale and national chairman of Breira, the movement that wants Israel to return to the Arabs all the territory conquered in the 1967 war except for Jerusalem. Asks Wolf: "Why can't I call him a right-wing fanatic? I think it's outrageous that American Jews are supposed to suppress their feelings in the interests of the Jewish people...
...acting, as in all miniseries, is wildly uneven. Except for Robert Vaughn's reptilian Haldeman/Ehrlichman and John Houseman's phlegmatic John Mitchell, all of the President's self-serving men are bland. The many familiar TV actresses in the cast are interchangeable, and so are the canned romantic subplots in which they appear. The series would have been smart to leave at least most of Washington's bedroom doors closed...
...vanner comes close to filling that bill - and would come closer except for the marvelous trick of contriving a vehicle that allows the inhabitant not only to feel at home above a highway but to be at home - stereo blaring, coffee warming...
...Durrell cheats a bit in Sicilian Carousel. He asks at one point: "What was Sicily? What was a Sicilian?" He never comes close to an answer, except for certain gestures, shades of light, knowledgeable asides. Never mind. The questions will keep, and they were probably too solemn anyway...