Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clever, those television programmers. In the late 1970s they were among the last to discover that news is not just news, it is also (Lights! Cameras! Banter!) entertainment. So if news can be entertainment, why not turn entertainment into news? Presto, Entertainment Tonight was born: news in form, entertainment in content, a TV hybrid. There may be no business like show business, but there's good business in show-business news...
...uninhibited acting is consistently excellent and the the show's tinning runs smoothly with live piano music as the transitions between the scenes. The costumes contribute to the quality in the level of acting with each actor wearing the same sexless outfit of lavender courderoy. Matching the clever costumes are the creative sets which use different props like toilet seats as chairs and chalkboards as windows using the chalk to draw the blinds...
...faithful feel as if they were in a concentration camp. Residents of Cracow also wondered why a park that had been used for a papal Mass in 1979 had been subdivided with wooden railings that gave it the appearance of a cattle pen. The likely explanation: it was a clever way to keep the Pope from mingling with the people...
...thousands of U.S. fans typically are Hispanic junior high schoolers, like the heartthrobs themselves: five Puerto Rican boys, ages 13 to 15. And menudo, which means "small change" in Spanish, is not really a band or even, to use the '60s phrase, a combo. It is a clever marketing idea: the boys are mere employees of a promoter who replaces each one before he turns 16. "Menudo is a formula, and we must take care not to break it," says Edgardo Díaz, 31, Menudo's inventor and honcho, who manages to seem both cynical and ingenuous...
...began as a two-week holiday job. Jonathan Miller, then a 26-year-old medical student, joined three fellow Oxbridge graduates in writing and performing a comic revue at the Edinburgh Festival. His collaborators were Alan Bennett, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Their insouciant, schoolboy-clever show became the London and Broadway hit Beyond the Fringe, and Miller's two-week lark turned into a celebrated 22-year career in the theater, primarily as a director...