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...strapping 6 ft. 4 in., weighs over 200 Ibs., and combines a corrosive wit with an air of disdain for all the lesser creatures. Few publishers anywhere would have felt sure enough of themselves to say of their leading paper, as King said of the London Daily Mirror: "You can't publish a paper which appeals to people less educated and less intellectual...
...Hugh Cudlipp, 54. King was fired more for his political views than anything else. For the last few months, he has been conducting a bitter, almost one-man campaign designed to remove Harold Wilson as Prime Minister. This reached a climax in a front-page editorial in the Daily Mirror last month. Written and signed by King, it declared that Wilson's government had lost "all credibility, all authority" and had brought Britain to its "greatest financial crisis...
Mortified Labor. As soon as the Mirror's 5,000,000 readers got a glimpse of this diatribe, the pound plummeted to its lowest post-devaluation level, and King was widely criticized by politicians and press alike. Among the most mortified were some of the members of the Mirror group's board of directors who belong to the Labor Party and still support Wilson. Adding to their distress was the fact that King rarely took the trouble to consult them on important matters. Moreover, profits declined somewhat last year, taking some of the gloss off the years...
...destruction was too widespread to be happenstance. Items: Several burned neckties. A smashed mirror. A torn book titled What I Believe. A row of glass bottles, their necks grotesquely melted halfway down inside their bodies. A series of self-destructing slides-on their first showing, they melt and dissolve in the projector's heat...
...puny tinkering. Playwrights like Beckett, lonesco and Genet have abandoned admonitory Ibsenite finger-waving for a nerve-shattering look into the abyss of existence itself, which in their view is stingingly futile, innately unjust and thoroughly absurd. In the future it may be said that they held a broken mirror up to the nature of the age, but for now they have rendered Miller obsolete by altering the central focus of theater from sociology to metaphysics...