Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some journalists who cover TV consider Paley, 77, a particularly elusive subject, but Clarke discovered the chairman of CBS to be gracious and cooperative. Their 1½-hour meeting took place in Paley's office, a "wonderfully opulent but understated room," according to the TIME visitor, with paintings by Picasso and Rouault and a chemin defer table from Paris now used as a desk and, for this occasion, a tape recorder. "I asked Paley if he minded if I used my tape recorder," says Clarke. " 'No,' he replied, 'as long as you don't mind...
...nightly appearances on the newscasts. He also made gains at a series of quiet meetings in New York. He talked with groups of blacks, Jews and business leaders. Howard M. Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress, concluded guardedly that "Brown says the right things." During a three-hour dinner with Mayor Edward Koch, Brown impressed one of the mayor's aides as being "neither flaky nor overly philosophical; he's a good politician." Nevertheless, Koch, long a Carter supporter, indicated he still favored Carter over Brown...
...motorcade drove by. When the blue Mercedes bearing the 78-year-old Shi'ite leader neared the city, the throng burst through a cordon of police and armed Islamic guerrillas. It engulfed the car in a sea of humanity so dense that it took nearly an hour for the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to complete the last mile and a half of his journey. Finally, he mounted the steps of a golden-domed shrine and looked out in triumph over...
...schedule really showed was an industry in chaos, with each network going all out to knock off the other two. The pyrotechnics from CBS included Rocky, the Grammy Awards show and Marathon Man. NBC fired off James Michener's Centennial, Backstairs at the White House, a six-hour remake of From Here to Eternity, American Graffiti and The Sound of Music. ABC, which now rules the ratings charts, disdained such vulgar showmanship, but, in fact, it threw in the heaviest salvo of all: the $16 million sequel to Roots, which two years ago drew the biggest audience...
...shows we have on encourage family viewing together. What we have tried to do, particularly in the initial hour of the evening, is to put on shows that encourage people to sit down and watch with their kids and have a dialogue. Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley really reinforce certain things within a family as they watch together. One of the most pleasing things is that not only is Mork & Mindy an enormous success, but that the social comment and the moral point made at the end of that show every week are just overwhelming. It is a message about...