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Whoever writes the reviews on television doesn't know what he is talking about. I watch television to be entertained and to relax my mind from the everyday grind, and as such I do not like, and will not watch, any program that tries to delve into racial or religious or any other turmoil of the day. And it just makes me boil when some joker implies that people are jerks because they don't demand symphonies or opera or some other kind of high-toned programs...
William Jacobson's direction shows that he knows his business. Ditto for John Dudley's musical direction and Christina Wilhelm's choreography. But something--perhaps opening night jitters--seemed to throw every-one off a bit. The girls grind grandly but they never quite bump with the orchestra's beat; a group of swaying subway riders slowly splits into two groups swaying in opposite directions--and not even a BMT car can produce that effect...
Yoshida early pushed Dentsu into radio and television production. In Dentsu's television studios, agency scriptwriters grind out soap operas, mystery thrillers (Mr. Himana Steps Out) and easterns (about sword-swinging samurai). By pio neering in commercial radio and televi sion, Yoshida was elected to the boards of 20 broadcasting companies-a fact that gives Dentsu a big edge in placing its programs and commercials...
...distance runners are well into their 20s, and often beyond. But this year the perennial stars are being run into the boards by a Canadian high school senior: 17-year-old Bruce Kidd, the neighborhood newsboy back home in Toronto, who can cruise through the three-mile grind as though it were a jaunt to the corner soda shop...
Exotic Menu. The ordeal over, Elizabeth and Philip recessed for lunch along the Narayani River. The exotic menu: black partridge, florican crane, wild boar shashlik, shredded venison curry. Then they went after bigger game: a female rhinoceros, spotted plodding through the jungle, calf in tow. Prized by poachers (who grind the horns into a powder that is valued as an alleged aphrodisiac), the one-horned rhino has almost disappeared from Nepal. But Marksman Home was not to be denied. With the help again of Bonham Carter and Adeane, he quickly dispatched the lumbering beast, left its calf to fend...