Goodnight, Delight

Goodnight, Delight

James Morris

o these many years later, the question has lost none of its power to stun: If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be? We never expected Barbara Walters to give Socrates a run for his money, but this? In retrospect, the question probably signaled a defining moment in the devolution of the TV interview. And yet its empty-head- edness is rather appealing today, when we routinely expect our interviewers to follow the baton right to the knee, the knife to its target flesh. The cocktail of c...

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