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...covered by the film. This is historically inaccurate-he left the base in 1954-but it is emotionally correct. Kaufman wanted to do a movie about "a particular form of American heroism" and to ask the question "How does that elusive quality survive in the midst of the American circus, the chaos, public commotion, the panic, that all threaten to stamp it out?" The answer, of course, is that it can do so only in total isolation and self-sufficiency. So Yeager's life had to be mildly, benignly fictionalized...
...considers Miller one of the school's best professors. "It also degrades what other professors are doing." Harmon continues. "Yes, law should be popularized, but it's a matter of taste. The television medium lends itself to such great generalizations. "Miller's Court" makes law look like a Roman circus," he explains. A journalist with a legal training could do the same job as Miller, Harmon says, adding. "You don't need a law professor--he doesn't have time to show his expertise anyway...
...same Korean girl grieved on ABC and NBC; the same act from the Moscow Circus performed on NBC and CBS; predictable American-flag graphics, to illustrate a succession of stories, appeared on ABC and CBS. On Wednesday, a viewer could look from screen to screen and see, simultaneously, three images of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, then three images of Secretary of State George Shultz, then three images of Washington...
Beginning last week late-night viewers across the country had the chance to do just that. Delivered by satellite five nights a week to a syndicate of 124 stations, Thicke of the Night is a dizzy 90-minute circus with Alan Thicke as an amiable ringmaster. Heavily hyped in print ads and on billboards, the show was put together by ex-NBC President Fred Silverman, who is betting that Carson's bedside manner is growing passé for children of the TV generation...
...There is no more institution building going on at the Business School... we prefer short-term projects, setting them up and taking them down like a circus...