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...visual product as it was designed to be seen, visually, with action and sound," says Madden, who shows up as a sort of visual product himself, neatly suited out and playing host on the show like an anchorman cut loose from his moorings. He remains unflappable, unfazed in the face of a blitzkrieg lecture on the ratings by a house expert ("Gimme a Break's sort of a joke, Taxi's O.K., fair, Devlin hasn't occurred yet, the long range is good for ABC . . .") and commendably noncommittal when the president of Showtime drops in to plug...
...that we are world travelers, or at least that we are all caught in the planetary claustrum and interconnection. National Geographic specials take us farther, more vividly, than we would have the courage or knowledge to go if we were traveling in body, not just in mind. The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in ragtop native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca...
Sometimes Bill Moyers as commentator sits at Dan Rather's elbow; a few nights later he can be doing a stand-up broadcast in a Warsaw square, newly arrived but confident and omniscient as ever. Over at NBC, John Chancellor, no longer at the anchorman's desk but sitting to one side, talks with pictures and maps, and seems happier as a commentator than as a news reader. Temperamentally, he has always been an explainer. These appearances are a long way from the days of Eric Sevareid, looking handsomely lugubrious and furrowed, as he made a few rueful...
...Crimson recorded another second-place finish in the 4 x 100 relay. Henry in the anchor position moved from fifth to second but made his move too late and hit the tape two steps behind the Penn anchorman...
...News is now a copy of our program." But there were other reasons for the CBS recovery. One was Commentator Bill Moyers, whose earnest analyses balance Rather's brisk style. Another, according to some industry wags: Dan Rather's sweaters, which are said to have softened the anchorman's hard-driving image. "Unfortunately," says Arledge, "the sweater seems to have worked...