Word: golden
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...culture. The prevailing tone on '50s movie and TV screens was adult, earnest, upper-middlebrow. Dozens of hourlong teledramas probed modern and historical topics each week. At movie theaters people found that for every social problem, Hollywood had not a solution but a script. Are you looking for the Golden Age of Television? You'll find it in the work of Fred Coe. You want to send a movie message? Call Stanley Kramer...
...Kramer's reputation is stale, Coe's is forgotten, though as producer of Philco Playhouse and later for Playhouse 90, he was the primo impresario of TV drama. Jon Krampner's engrossing The Man in the Shadows: Fred Coe and the Golden Age of Television (Rutgers University Press; 243 pages; $32.95) helps restore the stature of the Tennessean who made trouble in the studio and at home--he told his pregnant wife, "When the child is born, I want a divorce"--but was still one of TV's smartest, boldest pioneers...
However, as the saying goes, not everything that shines is golden: Hong Kong is now dramatically confronted with what through the years has remained the most visible threat to its global competitiveness: the housing issue. Although growing concern is now associated with issues such as the shortage of caring for the elderly, the low quality of the education system and the potential strain on the budget caused by the imminent immigration waves from China, the housing issue can have the most profound and far-reaching impact on the territory's economy. In 1996, uncontrolled speculatimn drove apartment prices...
...downpour. Questioned persistently, he finally said Walter lacked "intellectual leadership," then paraphrased Mark Twain: "The difference between president and vice president is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." Within hours, Walter's attorney, Bob Barnett, was holed up with AT&T executives, negotiating a golden goodbye. Walter is owed some $25.8 million under the terms of his contract...
...DIVERSITY BRINGS ON A GOLDEN AGE FOR THE DUTCH...