Word: halcyons
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...selling business today, you need only have sat in Radio City Music Hall Monday afternoon and listened to NBC Entertainment President (and former "Today" producer) Jeff Zucker explain what "good times" these are for the TV-ad-selling business. In 1999 and 2000 - those halcyon, bounteous days when dot-com pioneers bestrode the land like giants, tossing multi-million-dollar ad buys to networks like parade marshals tossing penny candy to children - NBC was strong and rich and could laugh at itself. Its upfront presentations were like Friars roasts, with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (of Conan O'Brien fame...
What started out as a diversion for me and my Tokyo crowd degenerated in a few months into the chronic drug use of Jacky and her crowd. I began to smoke alone to begin my days. In the evening I'd take Valium or halcyon or cercine or any of a number of sedatives to help me calm down. When I stopped smoking for a few days just to see if I could, a profound depression would overcome me. Nothing seemed worthwhile. Nothing seemed fun. Every book was torturously slow. Every song was criminally banal. The sparkle and shine...
...hardly solved its problem. The factors dragging down its ratings - tape delays, too many up-close-and- personals, results being reported by an increasingly fast media (online and off) - will still be there (in the case of online media, tenfold) when NBC returns to Athens in 2004. The halcyon days when results were padlocked by a benign media dictatorship are over, thankfully. NBC's real problem is believing that its ratings have nothing to do with the quality of its broadcasts. If it wants to relight its ratings torch in 2004, here are a few suggestions...
...donors were treated to a concert featuring performances by nine musical acts embracing the last 35 years in contemporary music. But it was telling that the majority of the artists - and the audience -came of age in the baby boomer generation's halcyon years - the '60s and '70s. Even the show's younger performers, such as Lenny Kravitz and Sheryl Crow, are aligned musically with the traditions of that era rather than the current trends of dance, hip-hop and lite...
...halcyon" pre-war years, first years had moved directly into upper-class houses, but as the housing crunch grew to near crisis, all residential upperclassmen were moved out of the Yard and the surrounding dorms into the Houses to clear room for the first year class. The practice of making first-years "Yardlings" continues today...