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...networks criss-crunched into a near dead heat in the Nielsen ratings. CBS and NBC scored an identical 19.4% (of TV homes with their sets tuned in during an average minute), and ABC was only a whisker off the pace with a 19.3%. Everyone went crazy. CBS-TV was slipping, and the slip eventually led to the fall of its king, James Aubrey. On the other hand, it also meant that perennially third ABC was on the rise, and so over there, there was much patting of backs. No one thought much about NBC. Except, apparently, the viewers. Last week...
...spokesman for the Jubilee Committee said that Murray almost won on the basis of an unexpected flood of write in votes. Voters were asked to name the contestant best embodying the spirit of Miss Seeia, a young lady who was pictured, wearing a slip, in the Radcliffe Freshman Register...
...falsification, he never contents himself with their ready answers. "They've got journalistic maidenheads hanging in their offices. They like to ladle out the news. They can give the impression of a denial without the reality. But the more you make a liar talk, the more he's gonna slip up." And so he digs...
...teachers were besieging his parents with letters complaining about his incorrigible behavior at school: "He jumps like a frog and that's about all he knows; he even dances on the staircase landings." His father ordered him to give up dancing. He acquiesced, but invented excuses to slip away at night to neighboring villages to perform with a touring folk-dance group. The performances were held by the light of kerosene lamps on an improvised stage suspended between two trucks...
...brinksmanship, Mailer catches more than a glimpse of the abyss below. "How poor to go to death with no more than the notes of good intention," he wrote six years ago, in Advertisements. Every scene is almost over the edge, compressed with the tension of a man who may slip from his foothold on his own sweat; so is Mailer's prose--sometimes straight narrative riding on the sheer power of events, but sometimes inflated, rhetorical, once or twice embarrassing...