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...Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor by Diana Trilling. The murder of Herman Tarnower and the trial of Jean Harris are given a shrewd, unforgiving analysis by a critic with literary and moral sensibilities...
Omar Torrijos Herrera, 52, an ebullient soldier who, after leading a 1968 coup, became Panama's de facto strongman, though he served as official chief of government only from 1972 to 1978. A mystery figure of no known ideology but possessing formidable political ability, he employed shrewd negotiating skills and a talent for manipulating volatile nationalist sentiment to bring about the 1977-78 treaties restoring the Panama Canal Zone to his country's sovereignty...
...executives have concocted a shrewd mixture of dance, drama, music and talk, with twelve hours of program ming a day, seven days a week. Nine of the twelve hours are repeats, however, and only three hours will actually be new each day. About 40% of the menu is imported. Since the BBC has promised first choice of its programs to the RCA/Rockefeller Center network, which will go on the air early next year, CBS-C is leaning heavily on Britain's commercial stations and TV companies in Italy and Germany. From Britain comes a nine-part series...
This is not a movie that benefits from second thoughts. It has the structure of a conventional sports story: an agreeable underdog team known as the California Dolls and managed by a comically shrewd eccentric (Peter Falk) overcomes various tribulations to achieve a morally satisfying-and suspensefully staged-climactic confrontation with their longtime nemeses, the Toledo Tigers. Since the sport in question is something called female tag-team wrestling, there is a certain novelty of milieu and characters that has its entertainment value...
Gossip goes in for the negative, not the positive. It is no doubt meanspirited. "If gossip favors, even enjoys, dirt (the failings of character)," wrote the critic John Leonard, "it is because we suspect ourselves, and the suspicion is a shrewd one." Yet, oddly, people do not seem to object to being gossiped about as much as they once did. After all, as macrogossip has instructed, any gossip is a form of attention, a sort of evanescent celebrity. Even gossip works to keep away what Saul Bellow called "the wolf of insignificance." Privacy is not the highest priority...