Word: cowing
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...failings of television was Playwright Gore Vidal, who began on the familiar subject of TV taboos: "You can't discuss divorce or suicide, but sadism and murder are O.K." Vidal was the only witness to extend his indictment to public affairs shows, TV's one semi-sacred cow. There are "no controversial commentators any more," he pointed out. "Now you have these homogenized newscasters, men with no edges." He concluded: "Advertisers should not have the power to control TV. Let's face it, commercials not only are the best quality things shown over TV because...
...Cow and I (Cyclope; Zenith International) gives French Comedian Fernandel a three-quarter-ton co-star who can mug as well as he can, and certain questions at once arise. Will Fernandel let himself be cowed? Does the beautiful Marguerite make people eyes at him? The answer...
...story of this gentlest of war films is true, or so its producers claim: a French soldier working in a German prison farm escapes, making himself invisible by carrying a bucket and borrowing a cow, a two-tone job with fetching eyelashes. The two set out for the French border 400 miles away. The arrangement works beautifully; Marguerite feeds Fernandel when he is hungry, and he tells stories to her when she is bored. The Germans never tumble. Eventually they reach the Rhine, and by this time Fernandel and Marguerite are in love. All the bridges have been bombed...
...Khrushchev hoped to cow Nasser, the campaign was a failure. Snapped the daily Al Akhbar: "Arab public opinion is not ready to take lessons on freedom from the organizers of the blood baths in Mosul and Kirkuk" (where Iraqi Communists massacred their opponents two years ago). Columnist Mohammed el Tabee vowed: "We shall not tolerate any country's becoming the gate through which Communism can penetrate into the heart of the Arab world." Rallying behind Nasser, four members of the Arab League -Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Yemen and Jordan-denounced Russia for "interfering in the domestic affairs of an Arab...
...hard-core Sohyo unionists and Zengakuren students turned out. One crowd of 27,000 swarmed into Hibiya Park in downtown Tokyo to shout "Down with the Ikeda government!" Then the chanting demonstrators shuffled off toward the Diet, a few blocks away, inching their way along at ushi aruki (cow's pace) so that traffic was blocked for five hours. A column of screaming Zengakuren students stoned police guards lined up at the Diet, injuring scores. In Kyoto and Osaka, other student demonstrators staged week-long battles with the police...