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Then she herded me into a huge, ugly waiting room with all these other people--as if I was just another emergency case. They didn't even have a copy of National Geographic, probably because it costs too much. That's the kind of cheapo place...
...that to an experienced traveler it sounds like "Blah, blah, blah, seat belts. Mumble, jumble, life vests under your seats." Suddenly there is an ear-opening sentence: "Welcome to People Express, the fastest-growing airline in the history of aviation!" Welcome, indeed. We are aboard People's el cheapo $149 Newark-to-London flight, and the mood of most of us is light to the point of giddiness. Who cares if it costs $3 to check a suitcase? Most of us are traveling light. So what if instead of the free, creamed-Styrofoam bits that most airlines serve...
...cartoonish air is enhanced by the cheapo production--$5 million, miniscule by today's standards, considering the six eras and elaborate scenery. Every now and then shots reveal ostensibly majestic sights to be obvious models. The ocean in the Titanic sequence looks more like a backyard pool...
...sounds like the formula for a cheapo exploitation film intended to capitalize on the terrible events of recent months, in which sickened anonymity has struck out at the famous. Indeed, the distributors cannily evoke those tragedies by noting in the credits that The Fan is based on a 1977 novel and had finished production before the John Lennon murder -association by dissociation, as it were. But movies should not be judged on the manner of their promotion, and if this picture is not exactly high art, it is a well-made, quite intelligent piece of popular entertainment, containing a sensibly...
...years since, Arledge and Salant have come to exemplify the two poles of what network news programs want to do most: excite or inform. ABC's World News To night has got consistently sharper. Arledge demands and gets inventive technology. ABC, once el cheapo of the networks (it used to be said that ABC was the last to arrive at the scene and the first to leave), now spends good money to get good people. Arledge hired Richard Wald (once head of NBC News) to run his news operation, a job that Wald defines as "calming the process down...