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Network programmers hardly need a TV encyclopedia to recognize that another show has joined that select category. NBC's The Cosby Show, starring Bill Cosby as an obstetrician coping with the small trials of family life, was the highest-rated network series to debut last fall, and its following has grown to blockbuster proportions. The sitcom now lands regularly in the No. 1 slot in the weekly ratings; a month ago it even beat the Academy Awards by more than two ratings points. Its success has boosted the ratings of NBC's entire Thursday night lineup and has helped...
...siding, Pete Ueberroth was born Sept. 2, 1937, in Evanston, Ill. His father, Victor, half German and half Viennese, with his hearty manner and curious mind, was the biggest influence in his life, says Ueberroth. Perhaps because Victor's education ended in the eighth grade, he always had an encyclopedia near by and engaged his family in mind puzzles, a drill Peter used years later to brace his Olympic employees. His mother, Laura Larson, half Swedish and half Irish, had been ill almost from the time he was born. A Christian Scientist, like her husband, she died when Peter...
When all is said and done Who Spoke Up? remains more of an encyclopedia than a history. But even as an encyclopedia the book has problems, particularly with the lack of accurate documentation. It possesses fewer than one footnote per page--a shocking statistic for a book that tries to sell itself on its Intimately detailed accounts-an it is even sometimes unclear just who is being quoted. The rationale for this easy-read approach is obvious. The book is intended for a mass audience, and footnotes don't sell...
Worth spent two months comparing his books with the game and concluded that the authors cribbed heavily from his Complete Unabridged Super Trivia Encyclopedia of 1978 and its sequel of 1981. He alleges that the Genus edition is 33% his work and the Silver Screen version 22%. Worth says the authors often filched his exact wording, even picking up his mistakes. Chris Haney, one of the game's three authors, claims that dozens of people have sued them. Says he: "A guy in Ireland claims he invented the game ten years ago." Trivia fans this year are expected...
Before Barr, the idea of dedicating a whole museum to modernism as a culture, embracing design, photography, architecture and film, as well as painting and sculpture, had not emerged. At its origins, MOMA was intended as a constantly unfolding encyclopedia of the new. No institution can remain on that kind of cutting edge forever, and by the 1970s MOMA was muffled in its own success. All its departments had well-funded rivals in museums across the country. By 1980 modern art was an industry, involving hundreds of thousands of people. In the face of such expansion, MOMA became more preoccupied...