Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southern California landscape, there has sprung up like desert flowers a new variety of artists. They talk of a new esthetic ("art as a symbolic medium is dead"), but these young Angelenos are basically united only by a determination to prove that creativity and innovation can flourish outside New York's hegemony. "They are just isolated, friendly, ambitious young people who share a fierce outlook," says James Monte, a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Because they live in a backwater, they had to remake the whole scene...
...Surprisingly few. Oh, some things backfire. Like reviews. I feel in a review I have a right to be as brutal as I want to, especially with television because it's such a crappy medium. So I did a review of a Nancy Sinatra television special and I said no matter how much of her father's money she spends on herself she still looks like a pizza waitress. Well, Nancy Sinatra has a lot of friends out here. I've gotten some nasty phone calls and a few letters...
...Anchormen Chet Huntley and David Brinkley and gave the ball to its fearsome foursome of floor reporters: John Chancellor, Frank McGee, Edwin Newman and Sander Vanocur. In the continuing absence of actual news, they desperately darted from delegation to delegation, chasing down the rumors that are always the prime medium of convention exchange. TV in general not only enabled rumors to feed on themselves but tended to make much of flurries that had subsided by the time TV got around to reporting them. Of all the floor men, CBS's Mike Wallace was the fastest on his feet, beating...
...last week after Frey told Ford and Knudsen of his plans, he quietly flew off to Manhattan for a string of job interviews. Not that he is really pounding the pavements. Prey's requirements: chief operating officer of a medium-sized company, preferably grounded in technology and involved in the design, manufacture and sale of a product-and, presumably, in need of a few better ideas...
...along that route last year. Eastern, as well as federal aviation agencies, hopes the testing will lead to a new form of short-range transportation. "Door-to-door" flights from small airports inside or on the edge of cities would save time and would not interfere with long-and medium-haul operations...