Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...denizens of the fantasy-world that became the home of the Irish aristocracy: the friendly politicians eager to hobnob with the new barons of industry, the neighboring WASP lords eager to secure a feudal alliance with the pillars of Catholicism and--always--the family priests, eager to anchor all that money and prestige to the firm rock of the Church. It's the stuff of which grand anecdotes are made, and Corry makes the most of his material. At the drop of a shilleleagh, he can spin off a neat character sketch that will leave all who have ever seen...
CATHERINE MACKIN, 38, covers Capitol Hill for NBC all week and then flies to New York to anchor the Sunday night news, which she took over last summer. It is a demanding regimen, but it does not bother Mackin: "People who do what we do are fairly driven people. I'm a compulsive worker." Mackin worked her way from,her home-town Baltimore News American to become in 1972 the first woman network television floor reporter at a national political convention. Though some viewers find her taut and aloof on-camera, off-camera acquaintances insist she is quite...
...puts it, "big boned," Compton scurries through the White House, buttonholing Carter staffers, befriending Secret Service men and vacuuming the place clean of stories. A drama major at Virginia's Hollins College, she covered Virginia politics for the CBS Roanoke affiliate. ABC hired her in 1973 to anchor network radio newscasts and a year later dispatched her to the White House. Compton spends so much time at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that the Georgetown house she bought last year on her $55,000 earnings remains unpainted and unpapered. Her social life is similarly neglected. "There...
...million-dollar newscaster, Barbara Walters, is "miscast in the anchor spot" and should "withdraw from the news show," declared TV Guide in an editorial. Has Barbara really been doing all that badly? After all, ABC's Nielsen rating has gone up half a point in the nearly five months since Walters went on the evening news. Still, news viewing is up in general, and ABC'S share of the total three-network news audience has not changed. Rallying to Walters' defense, the Washington Post's Sally Quinn argued that Walters' coanchor, Harry Reasoner, should...
...EVEN TEMPO of changes in movement quality and the unvarying level of intensity in execution anchor the multiplicity of surface motifs in "Clearfield." The only larger sense of form seems to be increasing differentiation. In the first half Soll remains separate from her four companions, who change off in duets, trios, and quartets. In the second part she begins to interact with the others; the quartet breaks up and the choreography becomes more diffuse as each performer defines a sphere of his own. In this latter section there are deliberate breaks in the monotone of the first half. The dancers...