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...fault apparently is not in the star-who has fluffed nary a line, bantered easily with Reasoner, and put even more bite into her interviews than she did on NBC's Today show-but in her format. ABC's half-hour newscast was restyled to include Walters' interviews, unscripted dialogue and features on such self-help topics as health, psychology and personal finance. As a result, there has been less room for news. Reports from correspondents in the field, for instance, dropped to 140 in the first month of Walters' tenure, from 168 the month before...
Dining halls in Adams, Dunster, Leverett, Lowell, Mather, North, South and Winthrop Houses will open a half-hour earlier than usual, at 11:30 a.m. Eliot and Kirkland dining halls will also begin serving lunch at 11:30, 15 minutes earlier than usual. Quincy will open at 11, one-half hour before the usual Saturday lunchtime...
...street corner after everyone else in town has scurried into their apartments for the night. No doubt, then, hailing from Kansas means you've whiled your precious life away watching the wheat push and sway up from the clodded earth. The Indian Wants the Bronx is a half-hour exercise in existential schmaltz. West Side Story and The Wizard of Oz are cliches, too, but they exude wit and romance where The Indian only hits you over the head with sociological pretension...
...Ford plunged into those states, his camp aired half-hour regional shows in which film clips of his final noisy rallies were juxtaposed with quiet, informal chats between the President and ebullient Sportscaster Joe Garagiola. "How many leaders have you dealt with, Mr. President?" asks genial Joe. "One hundred and twenty-four leaders of countries around the world, Joe," replies the President. Despite reports that Carter had far less money left than Ford and would not be able to match the President's TV onslaught, the Georgian's aides had paid for their final TV and radio time weeks...
Flannery O'Connor wrote: ''A half-hour's ride in this region will take one from places where the life has a distinctly Old Testament flavor to places where the life might be considered post-Christian. Yet all these varied situations can be seen in one glance and heard in one conversation...