Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been with the orchestra for years. Mormon prayer books are much in evidence, and hymn sing-alongs help to pass time. With the Sinners, it is not only smokier: the passengers are predominantly men, many new to the orchestra, and the talk tends to gripes about six-hour bus rides to play a concert and union negotiations with management. The Sinners are aware that the Saints consider them irreverent. "The Mormons really think they are superior people," says a Sinner cellist. "They are polite to us and pleasant enough, but we really don't mingle with them...
...Main Street, Sinclair Lewis called the small-town existence "dullness made God . . . the contentment of the quiet dead." But rural and small-town life has been modernized and is no longer stultifyingly isolated. The interstate highway system, 88% complete, brings most of the remoter regions to within an hour or two's drive of a city. Jet planes and a growing number of airports provide similar ease of access to he outside world. Television pipes its news and entertainment into the countryside. Along with lesser fare, Live from Lincoln Center can now be seen across the country without going...
...couples testify "We're closer knit and healthier than we would be in a city," says Moore. The food at the evening meal is usually from the family garden-they eat meat only about twice a month. Says Swenson "I wanted to be economically independent of the 40-hour week. I wanted out of the pollution and overcrowding. I found the wilderness aspect of northern Maine just what I was searching...
...unflappable backroom boy who had succeeded in every department, started scheduling for the fall with the courage of a man with little to lose. ABC'S strongest shows were tough cops-and-robbers epics (Streets of San Francisco, Baretta, S.W.A.T.). They could only be aired after the "family hour," from 8 to 9 p.m., when the networks schedule their hottest shows, usually comedies, hoping to capture an audience for the entire evening. Gambling that ABC could build an audience later in the evening, Pierce stripped in his proven dramatic shows throughout the week, and in the 10 p.m. shot...
...strong 30 share. Now winner takes all with three networks in contention. The difference in price between an advertising minute on a top-rated show and its rivals is up to $100,000, and the other shows simply cannot attract big enough audiences. With the networks fighting over every hour, the instinct is to play safe. Programming has become one spin-off after another, either from a previous success or formats copied from British...