Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mixture of galluses, shirtsleeves, palmetto fans, odd hats and lax faces. Most televiewers lost the thread of Senator Wherry's address, because of the woman in the background who blandly read a newspaper. Other strikingly human glimpses: a girl delegate smothering a yawn behind her compact during a dull speech; the grave face of a Puerto Rican delegate; a wide-eyed little boy in the gallery...
Some of the TV shows were dull, slow and halting; but technicians and performers learned at least three valuable lessons: 1) that TV programs, like any other good show, must be blueprinted and paced off in advance; 2) that lighting and make-up are a long way from perfection; 3) that the camera, like any other good reporter, must hustle to get a story...
...dull and the dense...
...cancellation or interruption with special bulletins. Each regular conference session (11 a.m. in the mornings, 9 p.m. in the evenings) will be broadcast and telecast by all networks. In addition, NBC and LIFE will present 60 hours of offstage telecasts-interviews, caucuses and color -between lively sessions and during dull ones. ABC, CBS and Du Mont telenets, and the four radio networks, have similar plans...
...Crown Jewel, a mare as beautifully black as he is white, and whinnies nervous encouragement as she trains for the trotting races. (P.S.: she does all right.) Left to their own devices, these glorious animals are a treat to watch. But too much time is wasted on relatively dull human beings: the Healthy Juvenile who owns Crown Jewel (Robert Arthur); his tomboy girl friend (Peggy Cummins, prettily poured into dungarees); her growling, boozy grandfather (a deadly conventional role all but redeemed by Charles Coburn's restraint); Burl Ives (singing a weird, savage ballad about two battling white stallions, which...