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American spies these days do not often get something to chuckle about. Over the past few weeks they have not only had a laugh or two at Soviet expense, but have also been given a small shot of pride to use during the continuing struggle with Moscow's agents in the world's back alleys...
...lets Elliot share a last moment with E. T. after the lab-technicians have zipped up his body bag, is a singularly flaky character, who confesses his abiding wish to look up into the sky and see spaceships. (Imagine how hard even the most generous-spirited of us would laugh if a Harvard scientist tried a line like that...
This may be true of car-chase dramas and comedies with laugh tracks, but network news coverage isn't shoddy. CBS, ABC and NBC each spend about a million dollars a week on their nightly news. Big budgets made possible the satellite reporting from West Beirut; large American audiences agonizing over what they saw (including one viewer in the White House) hastened the ceasefire. But if network news is indispensable, it is also inadequate. Its fatal flaw is fear of the bored viewer switching channels. Those who get their news mostly from TV, as most Americans...
...University of Chicago, he also was accepted as a student of conducting under Monteux. At the age of 21, as he came onstage to begin a cello recital, the nervous tension became too great. "I vomited into my cello," he recalls with a grimace. "I can laugh about it now, but at the time it was . .." Words fail...
...using such masking for years, but American television has remained leery. "It's dreadful," says a Cinemax executive. In 1981, according to the executive, when HBO acceded to Woody Allen's request that it show his Manhattan masked, viewer response was negative: "You just can't laugh at Woody Allen when he's only 1½ inches tall...