Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other couples, meanwhile, have made some connubial plans of their own. Chevy Chase, 33, who recently quit his job as Saturday Night funnyman to create TV specials for NBC, will marry in December. His bride-to-be: Actress-Model Jacqueline Carlin, 27, whom he met two years ago. Swedish Tennis Star Bjorn Borg, 20, has exchanged engagement rings with Mariana Simionescu, 19, Rumania's second-ranked woman tennis player until her defection to the U.S. this month. Tennis groupies, take heart. Mariana reports that she and this year's Wimbledon singles champ have not yet set a date...
...that aside, it is actually difficult not to admire the sheer brilliance of the network's commercial calculation, its bold strategies in positioning and promoting its products as it scrambles for an edge in its battles with CBS and NBC...
Silverman had apparently divined a rising public interest in seeing women more prominently featured on TV. To be sure, NBC had spun Angie Dickinson's Police Woman out of its Police Story series two years ago and had done reasonably well with a show that portrayed a woman as brave and self-reliant. Then, of course, there was The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner. Silverman ordered her resurrected after she was erroneously bumped off at the end of a special appearance on The Six Million Dollar Man; a heart and a rather engaging spirit coexist with the electronic circuitry...
...NBC Correspondent Newman justifiably sees himself as one of those individuals. Yet his tactics lean mainly toward humor. In the battle against corrupt English, he clearly believes he serves best not as a guerrilla but as a leader of the loyal opposition, even as a court jester...
...written from the mailbag. It offers a plethora of mangled speech and prose, drawn not only from advertisers, politicians, sportcasters and sociologists, but also from people who should know better, such as educators and journalists (among the most cited offenders: the New York Times, TIME* and Newman's employer, NBC...