Word: colors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taped program was in full color, and it pre-empted prime-time TV shows ?from Lost in Space to The Lucy Show ?throughout California. The star was that old TV steady, Ronald Reagan, and he had a new sponsor: a Reagan fan club called Californians for a Creative Society, which picked up the $20,000 tab "in the interest of an informed citizenry." What he had to say was news to a lot of people, including most state legislators, who for the first time learned from the tube what the Governor would later ask them to enact...
...following page). Yet there is a slightly unreal air to Brazil this week, as carnaval dances toward its pre-Lent climax. Since the military crackdown last December, Brazilians have had to put up with a tough, moralistic, even prudish regime. While revelers are putting the final touches on their colorful fantasias, the stunning costumes that give carnaval its color, the dour government of President Arthur da Costa e Silva continues its purges and its arrests. Scores of Brazilians are in jail, and some will sit out carnaval in virtual exile, on the lonely island of Ilha Grande, 70 miles...
...magnify its occasional and not really fresh revelations-including covert CIA funding of the National Student Association and military-financed secret research at universities. Circulation rose to a high of about 225,000. It has been losing some $20,000 an issue, partly because of its flashy, full-color format (says Hinckle: "I hate butcher paper"). A contributing reason was the fact that some of the staff grew fond of spending too freely...
...film on television is doubly troublesome, for the small screen reduces the principals to tiny figures who are all but lost in panoramic scenes. Despite the difficulties, England's Royal Shakespeare Company, under Director Peter Hall, has turned A Midsummer Night's Dream into a richly textured color film that comes across as TV at its best. Millions of Americans will have a chance to view it on CBS next Sunday (Feb. 9, 9-11:15 p.m., E.S.T...
...sees the play, rather, as a poignant tale of "the universal experience of falling in love on Monday, out of love on Tuesday, in love again on Wednesday, and discovering on Thursday that your best friend loves the same girl." David Warner, remembered from Morgan (see CINEMA color), and Diana Rigg, onetime heroine of ABC's The Avengers, play two of the lovers as hot-blooded, impulsive adolescents; they are supported by Michael Jayston, a four-year veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Helen Mirren, one of the group's youngest leading ladies, who is currently touring...