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...punk who dreams of opening a restaurant in an abandoned firehouse, wants to join forces on the project with the middle-aged cookie lady. "What a crust! What a crunch!" he cries, wooing her. The pipe dream is shattered by the pompous detergent vendor, and in a "cathartic" climax the cookie lady smushes pies into his and the punk's face. Throwing food really means something in the bourgeois theatre with all these half-eaten cookie characters...
That pell-mell derring-do is not for the courts but for the cameras. It is the climax of a television pilot called Today's FBI. Two Sundays ago the show's first appearance in its weekly time slot outdrew in ratings another durable American institution, Archie Bunker. As the age of antiheroes apparently gives way to a public hankering for heroism, FBI Director William Webster and his beleaguered colleagues are seeking to resume their legendary role. So Webster has given free use of the agency's name and seal to the ABC network and Hollywood Producer...
Nothing was missing from this storybook climax to an 0-3 season of courage, good humor, and intense determination. Outweighed and outplayed by their opponents, as they have been every year for as long as anyone can remember, the Bellboys never abandoned hope, and for the first time since 1978, they walked away from a game with points they could call their...
That, on the 68th page of Wolfe's airy 143-page volume, is the climax. From then on, it's merely the sad story of how an assertive intellectual vanguard forced the wretched glass boxes on corporations and federal agencies, which offered nary a peep of protest. Wolfe's best point--his most incisive, yet also the most obvious--is that this "worker" housing repelled any workers who had to live in it. They hated the International "vision of highrise hives of steel, glass, and concrete separated by open spaces of green lawn." The people tried anything to inject some...
...able to buy small chunks of a minute, or even 30 seconds, as they are now in the habit of doing. Commercials, moreover, are not supposed to interrupt the continuity of a show; they will come at odd times, and playwrights will no longer be required to provide a climax every 15 minutes. In the first week, that benign rule was violated frequently. Almost all the commercials were awkwardly placed, and little effort seemed to be made to preserve precious continuity. So far, only three advertisers-Kraft, Exxon and Kellogg-have committed themselves beyond the first week, and most...