Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President remained calm. He seemed to snap back from his depression after losing Nebraska. "We've got to keep our cool," he told an agitated aide. Ford could still take heart from the latest Gallup poll, completed May 3, showing that Republicans favored him 60% to 35% over Reagan. The President was putting his faith in the basic instincts of Republicans when their hands were finally on the voting lever. Wild as they may be about Reagan, most Republicans know that they will probably have a better chance of winning in November with Ford...
Larry Day was nervous. It was only a practice game, but Larry, who is twelve, knew that a tough contest loomed. Besides, nearly his entire family would be watching-Brother Mike taking pictures, Sister Judy and Mother Phyllis cheering and providing oranges to cool off the 82° day in Seattle, and Father Dale, who once coached the team, offering encouragement...
Tunnelvision, which has its East Coast premiere at the Orson Welles this week and which purports to be a hot, hip parody of the cool medium, falls on its face because it never escapes what it tries to make funny. Bereft of originality, the film, set in 1985, tries to keep the laffs coming with a tiring and finally irritating stream of take-offs of TV just the way it is today. L.A. crime dramas get the treatment with "Police Comic," a one-minute bit in which a stand-up joking cop makes the bad guy give up with...
Your Show of Shows. Saturday at 11:30 on Channel 7. If television is a cool medium, it's only since Sid Caesar left it. An immense, bear-like monster who generated more energy than any three TVA projects, Caesar did the best comedy on television, ever. With a company of electrocharged writers and actors, including Howard Morris, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and the woman to whom flowers should be sent and odes written daily, Imogene Coca, Your Show of Shows took over the airwaves live, for ninety minutes a week. Twenty-five years later, their old kinescopes re-shown...
...cast an august presence like John Gielgud or someone to play the voice of God. But there is no doubt that there was one person born to play Him, and it was Sid Caesar. He hurled and slapped his little universe into its own special order. There was nothing cool about...