Word: homeyness
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...normally frozen reserve of royal protocol. Charles and Diana try to spend as much time together as possible. The breakfast hour is kept sacred; during their stay at the embassy, for example, they will probably not be intruded upon much before 8 and will take breakfast in their homey, three-room suite...
...Petticoat Junction soundtrack picks up steam, the lights go up on a barren set featuring a homey dinette and two good ole' boys dressed for an episode of Hee-Haw, getting ready to broadcast the morning news over Greater Tuna's airwaves. And among the items of interest, we are informed that beef is up, pork is down, and tropical rainstorm Luther is headed directly our way just in time for rehearsals of My Fair Lady set in Polynesia at Greater Tuna High...
Sound pretty homey? Maybe at first, but the message comes across a few lines later when they describe the kids as "little playthings" for the parents. Even some subversion makes its way into the conservative household. These are no ordinary parents. After they've forced the child to stay up way beyond his bedtime they decide to coax him out of bed despite the late hours. After all, he is just a little plaything...
...changed the face of morning television." Hartman's abundant curiosity and sense of wonderment still serve him well after all these years; his narration of a flight he took in a B-1 bomber last year vividly captured the sights, sounds and fears. Joan Lunden, who has shared a homey set with Hartman since 1980, has sharpened what once were rather dull interviewing skills. Yet the duo rarely engage in the spontaneous banter of Gumpaul...
DIED. Roy Plomley, 71, cheery host for 40 years of the BBC's weekly Desert Island Discs, a radio program famous for attracting such celebrities as Princess Margaret and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for intimate, homey chats; of a heart attack; in London. Plomley's formula was unvarying: he asked each of his 1,791 guests to select eight recordings, one book and one luxury for an indefinite stay on a desert island. Princess Margaret's picks included Rule Britannia; Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer; and Sixteen Tons sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford...