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...think that Rush Limbaugh is the equivalent of say, Mort Sahl. And again, it's because of who his targets are. Yes, it's identifiably satire, but the point I was trying to make last night is that when you aim satire at powerless groups it is really not only cruel, it's pathetically vulgar...
...heartily recommended. In this peppy memoir, Robert Manning traces his career through the wire services, TIME and John Kennedy's State Department, plus 16 years as editor in chief of the Atlantic until he was sandbagged -- there seems no better word for it -- by the magazine's present owner, Mort Zuckerman. It's hard to avoid smugness when recounting one's triumphs, and the author does not always succeed. Manning got his start at the Binghamton (N.Y.) Press, which had been founded by the maker of an alcoholic elixir called Swamp Root. Interesting factoid...
directed by Mort Kaplan...
...this, Shaw's most confused character. Her success lies in the fact that she makes the audience feel a simultaneous attraction, revulsion, contempt and sympathy for her. Here, we see the beginnings of some of the rather questionable father-daughter relationships that Shaw went on to create. The director, Mort Kaplan, seems to have done his best to accentuate the suggestions of Blanche's Electra complex...
...staff who was hired with Rollins in June to run the campaign, has gone back to his corporate life at Whittle Communications in Knoxville, Tennessee. James Squires, former editor of the Chicago Tribune and Perot's press secretary until July, has returned home to Kentucky to raise horses. Mort Meyerson, Perot's chief business aide, who once played a major role in the campaign, is busy running Perot's computer-services company. John White, the principal architect of Perot's economic plan, returned last week to his job with Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York. He has no connection with...