Word: ennui
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Telephone talk shows began in the early '60s, but most of them died with the decade, victims of various technical problems, high costs of production and, most important, audience ennui. Now bolder, brassier talk jockeys and new approaches have not only revived the shows but often make them the most important part of a station's programming. By switching to an all-talk format, Manhattan's WMCA has jumped from 20th to seventh among AM stations. "Just in the past few months," says Robert Henabery, director of program development for ABC-owned radio stations, "the potentialities...
...phrase, "a fruit enfolds its stone." How does old age feel? To Juvenal, it was "a perpetual train of losses." To Jonathan Swift, it meant "a state of permanent anger." Even the master exulter of all, Walt Whitman, was finally brought, in his own words, to "whimpering ennui...
...never saw the Germans," says one Frenchman. Says another: "I saw too many." Former Premier Pierre Mendès-France flashes on-screen recalling, in 1969, that during the 1939 "phony war," Paris ladies actually raised money for planting rose bushes along the Maginot Line-to reduce the ennui of the poilus stationed there. German newsreel footage switches from scenes of fresh, blond Wehrmacht soldiers swinging through France in 1940 to captured black French colonial troops, as a Nazi propaganda sound track mockingly quotes Neville Chamberlain: "We and our allies are the guardians of civilization against barbarism." What was your...
...EVEN BEYOND such ennui, the film's fraught with moral confusion. Caught between disdainful comedy and genre suspense, Dealing is schizophrenic. The audience ends up applauding the comic Mafia types as they gun down the rather thuggish cops while boogie-woogie hammers away in the background. The final, irrelevant shoot-out is reminiscent of Jacobean revenge drama--and just about as decadent...
...Airlines is giving a party for 1,500 persons in one of its San Diego hangars, but is asking that each guest bring a gift to be distributed in veterans' hospitals. Explains Lloyd Leipzig at United Artists Corp. in Los Angeles: "If you announced a big Christmas party, ennui would set in." Says Robert E. Sibson, president of Sibson & Co. Inc., a Princeton, N.J., management consulting firm: "Employees would rather have the company spend money on something else, like putting it in their salaries...