Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laws, instead of cutting into the wedding cake, cut into each other. Surprisingly, the formula works, and Bridget Loves Bernie, whose ethnic humor descends from Abie's Irish Rose (the long-running comedy of the '20s) down through All in the Family, is one of the brighter comedy spots of the new season...
...Dunyazadiad" is a different story (within a story within a story) and a winged horse of a brighter color. In it Barth succeeds with clarity, succinctness and natural ease in creating a modern tale out of the oldest forms of storytelling. It is about Scheherazade's famous plight as told by her younger sister Dunyazade, who sat at the foot of the bed for 1,001 nights while the Shah made love to Scheherazade and was held spellbound by her stories. It may be recalled that before the Shah met "Sherry," as she is known in the bedchamber...
Prospects are brighter in the Senate, where a switch of only five seats would put the Republicans in command...
...betrayed his emotion only by a small, unmistakable sign: his blue eyes were brighter than usual. Before the vote-changing started, the total for McGovern was 1,728.35. When it was over, the tally for McGovern was 1,864.95; Jackson, a surprising second, had 485.65; Wallace had 377.50; Chisholm, North Carolina's Terry Sanford, Humphrey, Muskie, Wilbur Mills and Eugene McCarthy trailed behind...
...buying newspaper ads and in plugging the show on its own air time. In addition, Cavett has worked to line up stronger guests-notably Jack Paar in two refreshing 90-minute appearances and Alfred Hitchcock in another-and he himself seems to have gained in confidence, becoming looser and brighter. Says Cavett: "There's a consciousness that every minute has to count and that every utterance is under scrutiny...