Word: cues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the band failed to begin Happy Birthday to You on cue, a nervous p.r. man standing too close to the microphone grumbled, "Why the hell aren't they playing?" Apart from that minor gaffe, the world premiere of That's Entertainment, Part 2, and an accompanying 77th birthday party for Dancer Fred Astaire came off without a missed step. The film, which like Part 1 is a patchwork of old MGM movie clips, made its debut at Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater with the help of a chorus line of venerable hoofers (Donald O'Connor...
...Court Cue. Weaver's restraint was shared by Attorney Alexander Polikoff, who argued the case for the blacks. "The change is only potential," he warned. Before they could get similar relief, blacks in other cities would have to bring suit and prove on a case-by-case basis that HUD had violated their basic constitutional rights. "The real hope," said Polikoff, "is that HUD will take the cue from the court and, on a voluntary basis, pass out their dollars to developers in metropolitan areas." The resulting housing projects, he continued, should be accessible to people from the inner...
Writers often carp that most interviewers have seldom read their books. One guest on the Mike Douglas show was ready to accept the fact that his book had only been thumbed, but was surprised to see that the host's cue cards read: "That's interesting. Tell me about it." There are gaffs on even the largest, most thoroughly prepared programs. Interviewing Guy Lombardo about his book Auld Acquaintance, Jim Hartz of the Today show wanted to know how Brother Carmen was doing. "He passed away three years ago," answered...
Audrey Summers '78, a member of a student branch of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), said yesterday that 60 per cent of the respondants to a CUE survey administered last month would like a calendar that included an academic year starting September...
Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty for the Colleges, said yesterday that the calendar will probably not be changed because the percentage opposed "is not overwhelming enough. I think they [the student subcommittee of the CUE] wanted a more decisive majority...