Word: give
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When that schedule bites the dust, maybe NBC's beleaguered Fred Silverman will at last rise from defeat and give network programming the jolt it so desperately needs...
...lengths, as content dictates. On PBS, which has mimicked the rigid schedules of the commercial networks, content must conform to the clock. As a result, twelve minutes were chopped from the BBC's version of Kean. Most of the loss has been in those offhand moments that give the play texture, but a couple of key scenes have also been dropped, making the first hour unnecessarily difficult. Joan Sullivan, producer of "Masterpiece Theater," argues that her option was to show either a cut Kean or no Kean at all. It was a choice that PBS should not have forced...
...making a comeback. A television commercial for children's toys included the subliminal message "Get it!" until the Federal Communications Commission issued a warning against further TV or radio subliminations. In the movie The Exorcist the image of a death mask was flashed before audiences to give them an extra scare. The tactic may have worked. Warner Bros, is being sued by an Indiana teenager who fainted during the movie, breaking his jawbone and several teeth. His lawyer contends that the fleeting death mask is "one of the major issues" in the case...
Buoyed by price rebates that appear to be boosting car sales, Chrysler Corp. chiefs are expected this week to give Treasury Secretary G. William Miller their promised plan of sacrifice and salesmanship for the company's survival. As a gesture to a Government from which they are requesting aid and a union from which they want concessions, Chrysler's two top executives announced last week that they are becoming $1-a-year...
Since Brazilian law prohibits a corporation from profiting from the many services necessary in running a community, the Jari enterprise must give away or sell at no profit a large range of services and amenities. It operates a supermarket where goods are sold at just above cost, provides free meals to employees in company cafeterias and runs an air shuttle service that charges no fares...