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...would lift the series above a mere catalog of Great Moments from TV's Past. The uninspired narration does little more than scoot us from one clip to the next ("Dragnet was the first hit police show. It has been followed by a succession of cop shows."), with little insight into how the medium got from there to here. The series focuses, wisely, on programming rather than the business of TV; still, somewhere amid the clips of Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason and Playhouse 90, one longs for at least some discussion of how networks came into being...
...partner, Composer Richard Rodgers, had five shows, including their musicals Oklahoma! and Allegro, playing on Broadway. (For all his popularity, Hammerstein had a yearly income of $500,000 -- roughly half of Lloyd Webber's present monthly royalties.) We wrote then that Hammerstein's words "carry a gentle insight and a sentimental catch in the throat to millions of people who are only dimly aware of his name." Within a decade, though, such sentimentality had given way to a more hard-edged style. In a 1960 cover article on Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Camelot...
HUNTING COCKROACHES A vibrant farce by Polish Emigre Janusz Glowacki evoking the plight of refugee intellectuals: an actress who cannot overcome her glottal-stop accent and her novelist husband who looks for his lost sense of context and insight by puzzling over the rectilinear shapes of Western states...
...graduate students barely three years older than you? How can you not get skeptical when you get a better grade on a paper that you wrote the night before a week-long extension ends than one you work on for months? What all this shows is that quick creative insight based on few facts is the most effective and enjoyable means to get a point across...
DEMOCRATIC rivals are right to denounce Simon's "solution" as "neo-voodoo" economics. Congressman Richard Gephardt, a supporter of the disastrous 1981 Reagan tax cut, had what for him was an unusual moment of insight during Tuesday's debate when he called Simon's ideas, "Reaganomics with...