Word: gibsons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Clubs and Chains. The militants got a sympathetic ear last July when the election of Newark's new black mayor Kenneth Gibson gave the school board its first majority of blacks and Puerto Ricans. When negotiations on a new teachers' contract began in January, the board balked at renewing the arbitration clause, hoping to strengthen its educational control. The union struck...
Fights and Hooky. Last week, under pressure from Mayor Gibson, the board finally agreed to accept the mediator's proposal-but called public meetings before voting formally to ratify the contract. By then the strike had become merely a symbol for the rekindled racial hostilities that erupted in Newark's 1967 summer riot...
...ripens into middle age, Gibson's bizarre experiences become more public. He conducts an all-night talk show on which his guests blurt out their secret lives. A college professor whose sexual advances were rebuffed by a tough ten-year-old singing star turns to frantic logic: "Helen of Troy was nine . . . Psyche was six. When you come right down to it, how old could Eve have been-a day, two days...
...Gibson hits his peak as the star of Night Letters, a telephone participation show. Audience feedback creates a web of involvement and expands radio to almost mythic proportions. Spinning his dials and monitoring the tape delay device that censors callers' obscenities, Gibson is a McLuhan obfuscation made flesh-a benevolent witch doctor in an electronic village of the lonely, the sick and screwed...
...Dick Gibson Show, like Portnoy's Complaint, contains enough comic material for a dozen nightclub acts. Yet it is considerably more than an entertainment. The banal and the profound, the vulgar and the touching, are humanely juggled into a vital blur-a brilliant approximation of what it is like to live with one's eyes and ears constantly open...