Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facts of a horrific historical episode, this show also has the power to keep fickle TV viewers riveted to the tube. It is an uncommonly valuable achievement: Holocaust is likely to awaken more consciences to the horrors of the Third Reich than any single work since Anne Frank's diary nearly three decades...
Holocaust is often brutal. "Unlike pop movies about genocide such as The Diary of Anne Frank and Voyage of the Damned, this show does not leave the brunt of Nazi violence offscreen. Almost all the major characters in Holocaust die, and we see how they are murdered: in mass machine-gun executions, in death-camp ovens, in torture chambers. Though some viewers may be tempted to turn off the horror, Green does everything in his power to keep the audience transfixed. Once some early exposition is out of the way, his narrative races along at a relentless pace, spinning...
After Green wrote the full treatment for the show, he feared that NBC would reject his frank depiction of life and death in the camps, but the network immediately gave its O.K. "It was the week Roots went on," says Green. "I think the decision to go ahead might have been delayed for a longer time if Roots had not been such a whopping success." Current NBC Programming Chief Paul Klein, however, points out that the two shows are very different: "Holocaust is not Roots. It's not sex and violence. It is not an exploitation film. It doesn...
...Frank E. Sanders, protessor of Law, said he baked chewy granola cookies because they "are good for eating and good for the ERA." The bake sale showed that "all that goes on at the Law School is not just law," Sanders added...
...Frank Staszesky, executive vice-president of Boston Edison, disagreed. "Neither Boston Edison nor any other utility has a vested interest in the type of power plant it builds. Pilgrim II is necessary not only to meet the needs of Boston Edison, but to meet the needs of the New England region as a whole," he said...