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I didn’t get an advance screening of Brideshead Revisited. I’m watching it the way all the other highbrows are, week by week. And right now I’m wondering why it should take so much longer to watch—12 hours in all—than the book took to read.

Henry Kissinger said once that the nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it’s their fault. That seems to be the way with these British TV imports. They’re so awfully high-toned and elegant that—well, it must be our fault.

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I didn’t get an advance screening of Brideshead Revisited. I’m watching it the way all the other highbrows are, week by week. And right now I’m wondering why it should take so much longer to watch—12 hours in all—than the book took to read.

Henry Kissinger said once that the nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it’s their fault. That seems to be the way with these British TV imports. They’re so awfully high-toned and elegant that—well, it must be our fault.