Word: nbc
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...course, Jackson still heads straight for the spotlight when it is available. Against the opinion of some advisers, he was host of NBC's Saturday Night Live. He brought along his own censor, Harvard Psychiatry Professor Alvin Poussaint, to vet the scripts; Jackson excised at least one joke from a funny monologue about people who are unwelcome to join his Rainbow Coalition. (The rejected line: that "really, really, really poor people" were not included...
...most peculiar twists of the 1984 campaign, St. John's apocalyptic vision of the "End Times" emerged last week as a political issue. During the final presidential debate, Panelist Marvin Kalb of NBC asked Ronald Reagan, "Do you feel that we are now heading, perhaps, for some kind of nuclear Armageddon?" While Nancy Reagan gasped, "Oh, no!" to companions, the President answered that, yes, he had chatted with people about "the biblical prophecies of what would portend the coming of Armageddon and so forth, and the fact that a number of theologians for the last decade or more have...
...sisters in silk and satin are clearly setting the dominant style of high-gloss femininity, and their ranks are growing. Gina Lollobrigida has joined the cast of Falcon Crest, and Ali MacGraw will appear on Dynasty later this season. Yvette Mimieux will star in a midseason show on NBC called Berrenger's, about a posh New York City department store similar to Bloomingdale's. And Angie Dickinson and Candice Bergen head the cast of Hollywood Wives, an upcoming ABC mini-series based on Jackie Collins' spicy bestseller...
...real action began inside the hall, before an audience of 2,500, questions of defense, arms control and dealing with the Soviets dominated the debate. The candidates returned to them repeatedly, even when replying to questions about other subjects. Reagan was at his reassuring best when asked by NBC Diplomatic Correspondent Marvin Kalb how he reconciled his recent conciliatory line toward the Soviets with his previous "evil empire" comments. The President replied that he took back nothing he had said, but recognized, and had told the Soviets, that "we have to live with each other ... between us we can either...
...Reagan strategists did not try to conceal their concern that one issue might yet wipe out the President's comfortable lead in the polls, which last week ranged from nine points (Harris) to 25 points (NBC). "The age thing is what we're most scared of," admitted an aide. "That's what he has to put to rest on Sunday night." Another top adviser was confident that Reagan would easily pass that test, joking, "If he doesn't drool or shake, he'll be all right...