Word: echoeing
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...drain, and the development price of replacement programming costs a budget-breaking $50 million. Audience Surveys officials claim that their system is 92% accurate; that is, their pretesting weeds out all but 8% of the shows that are destined to be unpopular. Yet most scriptwriters, performers and directors echo the sentiments of Producer Brod kin, who argues that the system is "devised for idiots by idiots...
...everything from songs and arrangements to lighting and makeup. No detail is overlooked. They scramble into the rafters to scrub the grime off the spotlights, hustle around a club blowing out the candles because "they detract attention from the stage." They wire the singer's microphone through an echo-chamber box, or provide a cordless shortwave mike that transmits to an FM receiver hooked up with the sound system...
...Room after it closed at 2 a.m. so that "she could absorb the atmosphere." She went through 60 songs while Bresler and Duddy shouted, "Stand up straight! . . . Move your arms! . . ." Choreographer Peter Gennaro was enlisted to check her body movements, and Sound Inc. wired her into the latest in echo chambers. Then, after a break-in week in Columbus, Bobbe, now 20 lbs. lighter, opened last month at the Plaza...
With that dry and cautious comment, Chief Justice Earl Warren gave fair warning that the decision he was about to hand down for an angrily divided Su preme Court was sure to echo through law-enforcement agencies across the land. For the court was reversing the' convictions of four confessed crimi nals: Kidnaper-Rapist Ernesto Miranda, Mugger Roy Stewart, Stickup Man Mi chael Vignera and Bank Robber Carl Westover. It was a decision that seemed to invite controversy, but Warren in sisted that the court was not offering any innovations. It was merely reaffirming any criminal defendant...
Mixed Feelings. Most editors echo the reporters' pleasure. "Schooling causes only a short-term disruption of the staff," says Chicago News Managing Editor Creed Black, "but it offers a long-term gain." Detroit News City Editor Boyd Simmons agrees: "I can more confidently send out a man on a complicated story like water pollution when I know he has refined his own technical equipment to deal with it." The Washington Post is so impressed with advanced education that it paid for a year's study at Harvard for its Supreme Court reporter...