Word: leading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lucienne, the oldest sister, sleeps with Serge's best friend because life with her rich, Anglo husband bores her to insanity. His two middle sisters lead grubby lives with their struggling lower middle class French Canadian husbands. Denise sublimates her frustration into gluttony and Monique pops pills and curses her travelling salesman husband for coming home only long enough to impregnate her. Serge's youngest sister, Nicole, sleeps with him. Meanwhile the old man and the aunts tear at each other as they sink pathetically into their graves. Everyone knows what Serge and Nicole are doing, but no one says...
Whatever happens next, the U.S. economy will be hurt by what has already happened. The Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. estimates that oil prices in the U.S. will increase at least 15% by year's end. That would lead at a minimum to a halfpoint jump in consumer prices because oil is used not only for fuel but also as a raw material in chemicals, synthetic fibers and many other products. Rising fuel charges also will prod workers to demand more pay, which businessmen will pass on in higher prices. And as more dollars flow abroad, the greenback...
...weak spots. On Friday, NBC's Different Strokes, which began last month, is doing well, nicely beating The Incredible Hulk on CBS and crushing ABC's Making It. Unfortunately for NBC, its stockpile of good shows is so low that it cannot capitalize on such a strong lead-in; there is nothing for an encore. ABC also starts behind on Saturday, with the mindless Delta House, but the night is saved by Love Boat and Fantasy Island, both strong, fatuously cheerful shows. Sunday is also a downer for ABC, with the grotesque Battlestar Galactica, which is a very...
...likes to call a complete nobody. A struggling comic, he had passed virtually unnoticed through improvisational clubs and two flop TV series (the revived Laugh-In, the Richard Pryor Show). Then, last fall, ABC unveiled its new offerings for the 1978-79 season. Robin Williams, 26, was given the lead in Mork & Mindy, a spacy sitcom, and he became what the moguls love to call an overnight star. For once the Hollywood hyperbole is actually appropriate; Mork & Mindy is often at the top of the charts and is seen by an average of 60 million viewers each week...
...planned what kinds of programs we were going to put on and the amount of lead time we were going to allow to develop things of broader significance. We began several innovations: we created a whole new form of novel for television that broke the traditional time barrier, things you can't do in theater or in motion pictures. QB VII was the first major novel. It ran seven or eight hours. It's interesting to watch how we have moved into areas of social significance. There is a television movie coming up called The Cracker Factory...