Word: miltonic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dartboard grew up watching game shows. Along with "Hot Potato" and "Sale of the Century," one of our favorites was "Hollywood Squares." We developed our problem-solving skills by debating the merits of picking Milton Berle or Alf for the win. After a while, though, we grew older and tired of game shows. Jm J. Bullock and Shadoe Stevens lost their appeal after their 387th game...
...Minn. (Milton 7-12) at Cleveland (Burba...
...years school vouchers were the darling of conservatives like University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman, but they seemed more like an academic exercise than achievable public policy. Factor in the fierce opposition of teachers' unions, which view vouchers as a threat to jobs, and they seemed like a very long shot. But lately vouchers have been picking up steam. Democrats like Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist and former New York Congressman Floyd Flake have joined Republicans in advocating school choice. And last week venture capitalist Ted Forstmann and Wal-Mart heir John Walton announced the Children's Scholarship Fund...
...follow. She and her show, moreover, helped define a still nascent medium. Before I Love Lucy, TV was feeling its way, adapting forms from other media. Live TV drama was an outgrowth of Broadway theater; game shows were transplanted from radio; variety shows and early comedy stars like Milton Berle came out of vaudeville. I Love Lucy was unmistakably a television show, and Ball the perfect star for the small screen. "I look like everybody's idea of an actress," she once said, "but I feel like a housewife." Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason were big men with larger-than...
Along with "The Jack Benny Show" and "Amos 'N' Andy," programming is strengthened by several dramas anchored by the performances of Jessica Tandy, Paul Muni, Raymond Massie and Eva Le Galliene. Variety shows quickly gained prominence, led by the performance of Milton Berle on NBC's "Texaco Star Theatre." Berle utilizes sight gags very successfully. As The New York Times noted, "Television no longer threatened to bring theater to the home: it delivered...