Word: formative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...renew it, instead tried to negotiate a new one for fewer commercials. Y. & R. explained that even though televiewers tuned in to programs just to hear the Bert and Harry ad, they did not necessarily reach most beer drinkers. Since Piel's owns the cartoon's format, once their already prepared skits are run through they will either join the ranks of the permanently unemployed and unemployable or Bert and Harry will move over to new producers to continue at half speed. Bert and Harry's loyal viewers immediately began to complain. Answered Y. & R.: "Esoterically...
...smile, the cataract of words, the repeated promise to move forward-that has put Nixon at a disadvantage before the Big Eye. Debate No. 4 in itself gave little new substance to their views, though, as before, the tension of the confrontation made the occasion dramatic. The inflexible format and generally inept questioning by TV newscasters produced a disappointing, almost high schoolish, rerun of oft-stated positions and oft-used phrases on both sides...
...Twentieth Century may last until 1999. Always imaginative in its approach to recent history, the program will leave its usual format next week to do a novel portrait of Middle Linebacker Sam Huff of the New York Giants. A small trans mitter was sewed into Huff's padding during practice sessions and an exhibition game with the Chicago Bears, yielding such odd fragments as a defensive signal that goes "Brigitte Bardot double blitz" and a sharp warning from Huff to an elbow-throwing Bear: "You do that one more time, 88, and I'm going to sock...
Between 2,500 and 2,800 brochures listing and describing the seminars in a format similar to that of the "Courses of Instruction" catalogue were mailed today to all students who checked a religious preference of one of the six sponsoring denominations on the PBH blanks at registration. The deadline for registration is Friday...
...situation comedies, all designed to show that American family life is as cute as a freckle on a five-year-old. The show, which might also be titled Father Knows Nothing, presents the comic with the excavated face as a bumbler named Potter who is trapped in the customary format: Harassed Man Beaten Down by Wife, Three Daughters, Mother-in-Law. In the opening episode, Ewell could find no better way to outsmart his spendthrift women than closing his bank account and ruining his own credit. For those who may have tuned out early, the women were...