Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tradition, WKRP is about the modern American family: people who work together rather than live together. Among the station employees are the hip new program director (Gary Sandy), a shamelessly corrupt ad manager (Frank Bonner), and a prissy newscaster obsessed with hog futures (Richard Sanders). If there is a standout performer, it is Howard Hesseman as a fading deejay who falls asleep during his own broadcasts. Hesseman gets so many laughs that even the show's typically effusive laugh track cannot keep up with the pace
Giulini plans one major innovation for Los Angeles: additional chamber music. Modern music will be left to guest conductors. Says he: "I don't feel at ease with music I don't understand." Giulini and his wife Marcella will live in Beverly Hills; there will be none of Mehta's social panache. Says Giulini: "I have lived like a bear for years, isolated with my music...
Giulini and Mehta illustrate strikingly the contrasts in modern conductors: the older, painstakingly schooled musicians who served a long apprenticeship before emerging into public view at about the age of 40; and the young jet-age, learn-as-you-go conductors who have more commitments than time. The same contrast holds true among their recently appointed colleagues. The new faces...
...With $12 million at stake this year on the men's tournament circuit and another $5 million up for grabs on the women's tour, a bad call by a linesman is worth money-not to mention a few choice words. However offensive the behavior of the modern mercenaries, other, more serious problems confronted the sport as it moved into its new National Tennis Center on the grounds of the 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fairs...
...change in the game itself. Built with U.S. Tennis Association financing for $9.5 million, it will pay for itself in short order: $6.5 million was donated to U.S.T.A. coffers by CBS in exchange for rights to televise the tournament for three years. Flushing Meadow is glass and concrete modern, not Forest Hills grass and Tudor. Jets from nearby La Guardia Airport roar overhead. And that most crucial modern convenience - enough restroom space for thousands of tennis fans-is in ample supply...