Word: mod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edited coverage," network officials call that abbreviated schedule, and at the last Democratic convention it paid off well. While CBS and NBC were carrying the usual speeches, floor demonstrations and mid-aisle interviews, ABC won half again as many viewers as either competitor by showing such drivel as The Mod Squad, The Super and Corner Bar. Despite that lead, ABC trailed the other networks in ratings during the late-evening hours, when all three focused on the convention: NBC won 8.2% of TV households...
...there in local television land, the past two years have seen a proliferation of "happy talk news" shows that are a demeaning parody of news coverage. In studios that look like mod courtrooms, people of aggressive charm bounce one-liners off each other in ways that trivialize the news and diminish the raw impact of the filmed dead on a Beirut street. This is news as spectator sport. Confident young women or quippy males in tweed jackets review plays, films and concerts they are ill-equipped to judge. Joshing between anchor man and weatherman makes it hard to remember tomorrow...
Facing a thatchwood wall in a mod African conference hall, a gathering of key Protestant and Eastern Orthodox leaders from six continents and four races last week sang and clapped to the accompaniment of a jazz combo, recited the Lord's Prayer simultaneously in a Pentecost of languages, then paraded out into the Nairobi night for an informal session of Christmas caroling...
...Dwight Eisenhower). He is working, diplomatically but determinedly, to give Ford "a more presidential look." Rosenthal thinks that Ford, with his trim 6-ft. 1-in. frame and 37-in. waist, is a tailor's dream. But, in Rosenthal's view, the President's Middle American mod choice in clothes has been a bit too flashy for the White House. So next week, when Rosenthal is ushered into the Oval Office with a portfolio of materials from which the President will choose his winter wardrobe, there will be none of the plaids, brightly striped shirts and rainbow...
Since Cezanne, one of the stumbling blocks of figurative art had been mod ern dress. Cloaks and perukes are all very well, but what artist in this century has made anything of the dull flaps and tubes that constitute a business suit...