Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...network twice tried to share its risks and losses, first with 20th Century-Fox, then with its smaller rival BRAVO. But both deals fell through. The mortal blow, some industry insiders claim, was the announcement earlier this month by CBS Chairman William S. Paley, a staunch advocate of highbrow programs, that he intended to retire next spring. By last week, CBS sources said, even Paley was troubled by the losses...
...rest of his life." Happily, such stentorian tones do not often interfere with a drama no dream merchant could concoct. Hollywood, superb at turning its sand grains into pearls, stayed true to tradition. Far from suffering obloquy and ostracism, Begelman went on to pilot MGM. Hirschfield became head of 20th Century-Fox, where he successfully defended an executive accused of padding an expense account. By last week serious bids were being offered for TV rights to Indecent Exposure. A nagging question remains: Will some producer try to play a Begelman in the adaptation? -By J.D. Reed
...ailing little Seat (a Spanish Fiat) dubbed Rocinante, the newly elevated monsignor and his Communist companion Sancho set out for Madrid, a city that neither has seen for many years. Like Spain itself since the death of the Generalissimo, these innocents hurtle into the 20th century with ingenuous vigor. Feasting on suckling pig in Madrid's toniest restaurant or visiting the Valley of the Fallen, Spain's grandiose monument to its Civil War dead, the compañeros loudly dispute the merits of their beliefs: the Gulag vs. the Inquisition; Stalin vs. Judas; Brezhnev vs. Franco. The priest...
Short of such negative nirvanas, Walser's characters amuse themselves by strolling about. The Walk, a record of one such expedition and the longest piece in this collection, belongs on any short list of great 20th century stories. Its narrator is an excruciatingly proper and longwinded sort who turns a day's worth of rambling into a small comic epic. He jousts with a tailor over a defective suit: "The sleeves suffer from an objectionable surfeit of length, and the waistcoat is eminently distinguished in that it creates the impression and evokes the unpleasant semblance of my being...
Lutherans in the U.S. have struggled for much of the 20th century to overcome divisions inside their ranks. Personality conflicts and doctrinal quarrels have divided the churches, which were made up mostly of German and Scandinavian immigrants and hence were also split by language and geography. But painstaking diplomacy, conducted among as many as 18 denominations that existed a century ago, produced by 1963 a melding into two giant branches: the American Lutheran Church (A.L.C.), a power in the Midwest; and the Lutheran Church in America (L.C.A.), with substantial membership in the Northeast...