Word: kuralt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best, Real Life graphically illustrates the absurdity of television's reality mongers, from the cinema verite specialists at PBS to Charles Kuralt...
...large degree they were successful, but there were still some star-struck writers in attendance. A reporter for the Santa Ana Register, for example, asked CBS Correspondent Charles Kuralt for his autograph. Though the networks probably spent $200,000 on the ten-day publicity binge, the gifts (rugby shirts and overnight bags) and entertainments (trips to Tijuana and harbor cruises) of past years were notably absent...
Matter of survival, says Trillin. Since 1967 he has traveled the country writing a series of articles for the New Yorker called "U.S. Journal"--working as a sort of pulp Charles Kuralt. His food books recount the struggles of a travelling person to get something decent...
...changing at Today. The set is being redesigned ("Something more comfortable, less formal and sterile," says Producer Friedman), and the show's sometimes clunky script virtually thrown out in favor of ad libbing. Jim Hartz, Walters' intelligent, bland cohost, will hit the road to find Charles Kuralt-ish features. Interviews will be shorter, and a battery of specialists (on science, health, sports, travel, consumer affairs) will be brought in. Says Friedman: "If we can't be spontaneous, we're in trouble...
NEWS SEEMS to be our only communal event these days. But if you are looking for a chance to reminisce over the big news events of the past years, this is not the place. Rather, Assignment America is a loose concatenation of over sixty off-the-beaten-track, Charles-Kuralt-in-Middle-America genre stories culled from the last five years of The New York Times...