Word: glorious
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...time to start making up for the past few months, so with memories of the glorious fall of '84 in mind, I plunge into my first Ancient Eight predictions, the 1985 edition...
Four years ago, Tartikoff had few viewers with whom to share the experience. Hill Street Blues may be the finest dramatic series American TV has produced, but in 1981 it was a glorious anomaly on NBC's schedule. "It was also the very first show whose demographics were young, urban and upscale," Tartikoff says. "Consequently, nobody saw it, because the other 21 hours of NBC's prime time had mostly rural appeal and skewed older. Its lead-in shows were utterly incompatible; first Walking Tall, then B.J. and the Bear. If you can find one person in America who actually...
DIED. Taylor Caldwell, 84, prodigious, best-selling author whose more than 40 books, mostly intricately plotted historico- romantic melodramas liberally peopled with schemers and rogues, including Dear and Glorious Physician (1959), Testimony of Two Men (1968) and Captains and the Kings (1972), delighted her legions of fans but drew the contumely of critics for their outsize characterizations, empurpled prose and increasingly far-right political views; in Greenwich, Conn...
...That ( the good ones are masterpieces, and the bad ones aren't a total loss." It would be fine if films with such titles as Porky in Wackyland (Clampett), Show Biz Bugs (Freleng), Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century (Jones), What's Opera, Doc? (Jones) and Duck Amuck (glorious Jones) were embraced by the canons of academe. But imagining this, one can also hear Daffy grouse, "What a revoltin' development thith ith." Better, perhaps, for the Warner siblings to wear their garlands lightly, or let them fall off, while their antics continue to provide not so innocent delight...
This week St. Louisans will celebrate the opening of the most ambitious of all their proliferating preservation projects. The ornate Union Station and its glorious steel train shed, abandoned by Amtrak seven years ago, have been restored and turned into a complex of restaurants, promenades, 80 shops and a 550-room hotel. Under the far end of the shed, a boat pond and beer garden (Did someone say Budweiser?) are to be ready soon. The project cost $135 million...