Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that film makers are paying scrupulous attention to the old genres, and such formulas as the police thriller, the horror flick and the private-eye caper have been dusted off with success, screwball comedy was hardly likely to escape. All in the name of homage, Peter Bogdanovich ripped off Bringing Up Baby, called it What's Up Doc? and made himself a hit. Doc also represented Barbra Streisand's initiation into the realm of frenetic comedy...
...eye-popping, mouth contortion and shredding of the vocal cords were qualifications for a comedienne, then Streisand would be the new Carole Lombard. But she has none of Lombard's ease of spirit, her giddy eccentricity or quick, akimbo intelligence. Streisand is only aggressive. She scrounges for laughs like a bargain-basement shopper...
Seven and a half million early-morning television viewers are looking for someone to watch over their eye-opening cup of bad news. Before the start of the fall season, NBC must make the big decision-who will be the man to fill the late Frank McGee's spot on Today? Explains one network insider about the Great Host Hunt: "They're trying to make up their minds whether to go with somebody controversial, somebody offbeat or Mr. Nice...
There is no more pugnacious Watergate warrior than Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, who insists that Nixon has only himself to blame for his troubles. Yet Bradlee owns that the press is emerging from the scandal with a "black eye." The volume and complexity of the material, he says, have "made public digestion impossible." He also feels that newsmen generally
This first novel works the boundary between the Old and the New South, keeping a steady, contemptuous eye on the treachery of progress...