Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stumbled over words in news reports, tossed off weak and embarrassing ad libs, and did lackluster interviews. At her best she seemed bored; at her worst, confused and even desperate. After one of the biggest promotional campaigns in television history, Quinn's TV career lasted barely twelve weeks, a fiasco that no doubt still troubles the sleep of CBS executives. Especially since Quinn has just written a book recounting her experience...
...plays Ophelia like a stewardess in search of an Upper East Side singles bar; and if Ruby Dee's Gertrude is capable of loving either Claudius or Hamlet, it will certainly be news to them. Only Larry Gates, doubling as Polonius and the First Gravedigger, emerges from this fiasco with a modicum of merit...
...unsuccessful presidential candidate, but if one accepts her tale, she does have some grounds for griping. First she was wooed to TV at a series of high-powered executive lunches with CBS Vice President Gordon Manning (who was transferred to another job at CBS shortly after the Quinn fiasco and is now an executive producer for NBC). Then she claims to have been thrust on the screen with almost no coaching, no voice lessons and hardly a word from Morning News Producer Lee Townsend about the technical details of broadcasting. She reports that she did not even know the meaning...
...dwellings run by private absentee land lords: poorly maintained by owner and tenant alike. So it was in St. Louis, where the 33-building, $40 million Pruitt-Igoe project, intended two decades ago to be a model for the nation, now stands abandoned and partially demolished. Embarrassed by the fiasco, St. Louis housing officials are trying something new: turning the management of projects over to the tenants themselves...
...minutes. They continue tonight at 7:30 p.m. when Donald H. Fleming. Trumbull Professor of American History, similarly "prepares" students for a generals question they will answer in May on "Responses to Science and Technology." The eight hours clearly are not enough. Since the department's 1973 generals fiasco--when seven students failed both the written and oral parts of the examination--the senior faculty has almost certainly spent more time than that just reading undergraduate reform proposals and deciding how to fend them off as "unworkable" or "uneconomical...