Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Network Programing Director Eugene Hallman, 40, and TV Program Director Douglas Nixon, 44, aim for a magazine-like mixture of fiction, fact and fun. A typical evening's fare last week offered song (Perry Como Show) and adventure (R.C.M.P., a realistic serial on the Mounties, which cartoonists are fond of lampooning), but gave equal time to Live a Borrowed Life, a sprightly historical quiz, and Explorations, a well-filmed exposition of the odd migration habits of animals, birds and fish...
...Says Producer David Susskind: "We have none of those pernicious and aggravating conditions and taboos that you get everywhere else on TV." Most memorable example to date-WNTA's unbowdlerized production of Jean Anouilh's sex farce. The Waltz of the Toreadors, whose aging lecher-hero is fond of leaning forward to tickle young bosoms with his medals, meanwhile delivering lines not usually heard from TV gag writers: "Science ought to find a way of putting women permanently to sleep; we could wake them up for a while at night; then they would go back to sleep again...
...taken life in the teeth without ever uttering a word of protest, Paul Richards shows his versatility. If it was joie de vivre before, it is mal de vivre now. Without saying a word he conveys utter abjectness, outdoing J.B. himself, who at least had fond memories. Arriving in heaven, Bontche is judged by God to be so innocent that anything in heaven is his for the asking. What Bontche asks for, and the way in which he asks for it, are so humble that God and the angels cannot but hang their heads in embarrassment...
This exhibition reveals Mr. Black's apt and shrewd judgement. If perhaps, he was too fond of the works of Kubin, a tasteful illustrator but hardly a significant artist, he did give the Busch Reisinger many fine prints by Kokoschka, Corinth, and others...
...income stretching in the heavy five figures or build an entirely new career. Says one who does: "Some pilots use their spare time to become expert fishermen. Some become low-handicap golfers. I devote my off-duty hours to making money, of which I happen to be very fond...