Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week one poll showed Beame running neck and neck with his most widely known rival, colorful, combative Bella Abzug, 57. The former Congresswoman was actually running slightly ahead according to other surveys, but neither of the two was in a commanding position. Coming up fast were New York Secretary of State Mario Cuomo, 45-the personal choice of Governor Hugh Carey -and Manhattan Congressman Edward Koch, 52.* None of the four front runners appeared likely to win the 40% of primary votes needed to avoid a Sept. 19 runoff. But for Beame supporters, the crucial question was whether their...
...found his spiritual home: a company that is as aggressive, hungry and fast-moving as he is, unencumbered by the bureaucratic snares that come from long years of success. Without so much as making a phone call, Silverman can ?and often does?guarantee the commitment of hundreds of thousands of ABC's dollars to a producer. According to lore, Silverman can give a producer a yes or no within 15 minutes. B. Donald ("Bud") Grant, his counterpart at CBS, will say, "I'll think it over." At NBC, Irwin Segelstein will say, "We're having a meeting...
...industry observers feel that it would have got there anyway?if not now, then some time soon. Partly because it had fewer affiliates in the boondocks and partly because CBS's relatively sophisticated programs had cornered the older, educated audience, ABC was forced to court younger, urban viewers with fast action, sex and unsophisticated comedies. When the "family hour," the 60 minutes from 8 to 9 o'clock, was instituted in 1975, banishing blood and gore to later hours, ABC was ready with its comedies. Simple enough to appeal to kids, they were yet not so simple as to turn...
Plainly, the nation is witnessing a new form of nomadness, already epidemic and spreading fast. Why? Even though the craze began in California, it is not necessarily incomprehensible. Many observers shrug off the outbreak of vanaticism as merely an acute fling of the gadabout restlessness always evident in America. Any Pop sociologist might be tempted to interpret the van binge as simply a bizarre elaboration of the American's longtime romance with the automobile. At one time, folklore attributed the increase in vans to newly liberated youth's need for a convenient trysting place; indeed, the current...
With apologies (not completely convincing) for taking in so much so fast, Durrell inspects Sicily-its history, people, temples, flowers. He pauses for a charming lecture on Empedocles (Durrell is an intellectual name-dropper). He loves sudden transportations over centuries. One afternoon the bus comes upon a serenely classical car crash: "The occupant of the sports car was a handsome blond youth, and he was lying back in his seat as if replete with content, with sunlight, with wine. The expression on his face was one of benign calm, of beatitude...But the little man whose stethoscope was planted inside...