Word: dominos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DOMINO PRINCIPLE
...novel, Adam Kennedy's The Domino Principle was a thriller of more than usual style, distinguished by a fairly serious attempt to penetrate the mind of the sort of loser who, if properly manipulated, can be turned into a political assassin. Now the book has fallen into the heavy hands of Director Stanley Kramer, and, despite Kennedy's presence at the screenwriter's keyboard, everything that made the book good, popular fiction has somehow been lost...
...picture is a boring botch in every way, unconsciously exemplifying the film's title. When the first domino in a row is somebody like Stanley Kramer, you can count on him to fall down clumsily and knock down all the rest...
Some of the most fascinating chapters are those which deal, not with such high media profile stars as the Beatles, the Stones, Dylan, etc., but with the lesser talked about yet highly influential personalities like Fats Domino, Little Richard, Sam Cooke and B.B. King...
They demand that he be returned to the airwaves as an angry prophet. Their gambit works; the show's a hit. In domino fashion the old dogs cave in, get fired or die, and the popular-taste programmers take over. They provide scatological offerings around the clock and give UBS its first year in the black...