Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Instead, the insipid and the tasteless constantly push and shove, tug and haul, rudely jockeying for position in the ratings that mean the difference between survival and death for programs. Financially a couple of points make the difference between profits that are merely terrific for the network with a bunch of flops or simply stupefying for the one with the most hits. Here timing is everything. Whoever guesses right when mood swing afflicts the customers becomes TV's merchant king-for a day-while competitors retreat to a sullen contemplation of their demographics and a glum reshuffling of their...
...best of the whole bunch, the brightest gem among this group of talented freshmen gathered up by Satch Sanders to insure a winning future, is high school whiz Joe Beaulieu...
...dates of most of the other stuff reveal Faculty '76 to be a collection of artifacts. Perhaps the demands of teaching interfere with practice, but whatever the reason, drives home the point that the VES staff hasn't been producing much art worth exhibiting recently. Unquestionably they are a bunch of talented people, but what has happened to their creativity here? Faculty '76 shows artists institutionalized into Harvard professors. Trying to prove them still artists, the show is unfair to them both as practioners and professors...
...hold out for the Saturday night concert which looks like it may be the best of the whole bunch: Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass. This concert combines what must be considered the class of the old time jazz field. I caught this identical show last year at the Valley Forge Music Fair, outside Philly, and Ella was still incredible: still a great voice, still great scat-singing. She did the usuals: "Let's Do It," and a few Harold Arlen and George Gershwin numbers. Peterson was a little more on the cocktail, night club side...
...Hood, a displaced American, seeks release from inaction. Hood is drawn to dramatic, gratuitous crime. Less than a year before, as a counsel in Hue, Hood had punched a Vietnamese official for deprecating his own people. Dismissed, he wandered to London where he has set up house with a bunch of almost comical terrorists: Mayo, a rich woman who works for the Irish Republican Army Provisionals and has stolen a Van der Weyden self-portrait which no one seems to want back; Murf, a boy who makes bombs; and Brodie, his girlfriend who plants them. Together, they form a family...