Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Helmut Kohl, 52, was suffused with optimism last week as he and senior election strategists huddled over breakfast in Bonn's chancellery. With only three weeks remaining until West Germany's March 6 national elections, the tall, affable leader was considering some heartening news. According to a poll published in the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, Kohl's Christian Democratic Party and its ally in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union, were leading the rival Social Democrats 49% to 42%. Those figures marked a 1.5% rise in the popularity of Chancellor Kohl's conservative grouping from the previous...
They repair to an improvised breakfast table in the rear of the stage, and she leans over to kiss him. He leans over too, but only to get the newspaper, which he promptly picks up and reads, ignoring her completely. She ignores him too, at first, but after a while she pokes her shoe through his paper and they start to fight. "Now we are acting the estrangement," says MAN, and, a little later. "Now we are acting that our love has been deepened by the crisis...
...Breakfast Time was the first to arrive, on Jan. 17. A relaxed, rather modest and determinedly cheery program lasting from 6:30a.m. to 9a.m., it features a mix of news stories, interviews and the amiable atmosphere of a Sunday brunch. Says Editor Ron Neil: "You cannot machine-gun people with information at that time in the morning." The program massages them with it instead. The hosts (modestly called presenters, not anchors) are the avuncular Frank Bough, a veteran of the British sports program Grandstand, and the fetching Princess Di lookalike, Selina Scott, whose alluring television manner may heat up cold...
...enough razzle-dazzle to cause some sleepy viewers to pull a pillow over their heads. TV-am produces a glitzy transplant of American morning television, slicker and faster-paced than its placid competitor. TV-am's morning programs have an annual budget of $12.4 million, as opposed to Breakfast Time's $9 million. According to Jay, TV-am's task is "to demystify the news." But as of the inaugural week the direction of the program was still obscure...
Both shows are challenging more than just the British suspicion that television in the morning is faintly decadent. Less than half the population rises before 7, and British television sets are not generally in the kitchen. Moreover, the morning ritual of breakfast and BBC Radio 4 remains sacred for many. So far, the reviews have been mixed and ratings inconclusive. One day last week more than 5 million people watched morning television, many of them sampling the inaugural broadcast of the new show. A gastronome once claimed that to eat well in England one should have breakfast three times...