Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever happens next, the U.S. economy will be hurt by what has already happened. The Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. estimates that oil prices in the U.S. will increase at least 15% by year's end. That would lead at a minimum to a halfpoint jump in consumer prices because oil is used not only for fuel but also as a raw material in chemicals, synthetic fibers and many other products. Rising fuel charges also will prod workers to demand more pay, which businessmen will pass on in higher prices. And as more dollars flow abroad, the greenback...
...only surprise came at the end. In terms of quality, the final episode of Roots II was the best, with stunning performances by Al Freeman Jr. as Malcolm X and Marlon Brando as George Lincoln Rockwell. As ratings go, however, it was a disappointment. Night 7, ABC got only 40% of the audience, compared with 32% for CBS's Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes, a kind of all-star potato sack race, and 30% for yet another yodel of The Sound of Music on NBC. Still, helped by its old-time serials and the great...
Sitting on top of its Nielsens, ABC, for its part, claims to have hardly heard of the sweeps. "Our point of view has always been to schedule the network from the start of the season until the end of the season," says Network President Fred Pierce, 45, "not necessarily for any particular period. Our average for the entire season will be the same as it is in any of the so-called sweeps periods that everybody writes about." Like General Motors, which sets prices for the automobile industry, ABC now sets the tone for commercial television; it lays...
...Many others doubt that he can do much until the summer of 1980, when the network will automatically command the air waves with the Moscow Olympics. Silverman himself seems to lean toward that timetable. "If I had a crystal ball and predicted what television will look like by the end of 1980," he says, "my judgment would be that CBS and NBC would be on top. But what I learned from Supertrain is that there really are no short cuts, no substitute for careful thought and movement in very deliberate ways. This business of coming in with smoke and mirrors...
...kids and have a dialogue. Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley really reinforce certain things within a family as they watch together. One of the most pleasing things is that not only is Mork & Mindy an enormous success, but that the social comment and the moral point made at the end of that show every week are just overwhelming. It is a message about our society. The last time I happened to watch it, it was about Mork's own emotions coming out and how he felt freed...