Word: maximalism
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Fortunately for his fans, James Taylor has defied the maxim that suffering is necessary for creativity. J.T. is a happy man: he is soon to marry Kathryn Walker, a beautiful actress. He is healthy: his long ordeal with drug dependency seems over at last. And he still has the musical knack...
From Archie Bunker's weekly tantrums to J.R.'s endless scheming, familiarity on TV has usually bred contentment. TV viewers are creatures of habit--or so, at least, network programmers have staunchly believed since Lucy's heyday. As the new fall season gets under way, however, that time-honored maxim is being challenged. The reason is the sudden re-emergence of a format virtually left for dead a couple of decades ago: the anthology show...
Today's steady ratings' climb can be traced partly to the growing success of NBC's prime-time fare; according to a broadcasting maxim, some morning viewers watch whatever station they left the dial on the night before. The show has also profited from hitting the road. Pauley and Co-Host Bryant Gumbel broadcast the program live from Rome for a week in early April, then Gumbel traveled solo to Viet Nam to mark the tenth anniversary of the Communist takeover. In late May the Today stars and staff -- 47 people in all -- traveled 2,500 miles on a specially...
...American National Theater at Washington's Kennedy Center last June, his appointment was greeted with both shock and greedy anticipation. This was, after all, the Harvard prodigy who had made his name with audacious updatings of Shakespeare, transplanted Handel's opera Orlando to Cape Canaveral and spiced up Maxim Gorky's 1904 play Summerfolk with songs by George Gershwin. Yet his first offering at Kennedy Center, a production of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I directed by Timothy Mayer, was shocking only in its conventionality. So acute was the disappointment of critics and audiences that Sellars closed the play three...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo had only remembered Benjamin Disraeli's maxim "Never complain, never explain," he might have avoided some heavy fire from the National Rifle Association. In March, Cuomo offhandedly told a Los Angeles Times reporter that opposition to New York's new mandatory seat-belt law had mostly come from "N.R.A. hunters, who drink beer, don't vote and lie to their wives about where they were all weekend." When he saw his words in a Times story last month, the liberal Democratic Governor and possible presidential candidate realized that he had insulted a large, well-organized conservative...