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...good value. On television they have an impressive fluency and sonority. In the magazines, they write well, brilliantly sometimes." Yet what they write for their daily papers is often "quite appalling, long, loose, rambling and repetitive." This lifeless writing results, King declared, from a "fetish for objectivity." Reporters "divest news of its own inherent drama. They cast away the succulent flesh and offer the reader dry bones, coated with an insipid sauce of superfluous verbiage. They reject the flashing, illuminating phrase, which can make an unknown foreign statesman come vividly alive, or a dash of wit which may relieve...
Part of the newly strong financial position of Hollywood is due to an old nemesis-TV. It was TV, coupled with a 1948 Supreme Court action which ultimately caused the studios to divest themselves of theater chains, that put the skids under the movies' fat years. Attendance in 1946, 1947 and 1948 was at an alltime high of 90 million a week; by 1958 it had plummeted to 40 million. Since then it has slowly climbed to 46 million; that was not enough. But TV had discovered movies, and suddenly the storehouse of old films was the studios...
...Berry and Soprano Christa Ludwig), and the go-between world of an emperor and his wife (Tenor James King and Soprano Leonie Rysanek). The empress, alas, is without a shadow-she cannot bear children-and with the aid of a Mephistophelean nurse (Mezzo-Soprano Irene Dalis) she attempts to divest the dyer's wife of her shadow with promises of riches. In the end, after wading knee-deep through a quagmire of symbolism, all parties are appeased, and the two couples are elevated into an MGM sunrise, singing their heads...
...their own profit. According to the SEC, the twelve knew about the company's rich new mineral strike near Timmins, Ont., and started buying up stocks before a public announcement was made. Going to court, the SEC demanded among other things that the twelve be required to divest themselves of the Texas Gulf stock, plus any profits that they had picked up as insiders...
...food distributors would be implacably suppressed. Within 60 days, he promised, administrators of all state-owned enterprises would come up with a program for cutting costs. What is more, some of the enterprises might be returned to private hands. For one thing, said Ongania flatly, the government planned to divest itself of its 36 radio stations and its single TV channel. How many other state-owned companies would be sold? Ongania had no immediate answer...