Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already a general in this building, being Chief of Staff is not the most desirable thing you can imagine." Though his Lehman Brothers' salary is at least twice his Army pay, money had little to do with his decision, claims Dawkins' longtime friend Tom Brokaw of NBC. Says he: "The military put a lot of constraints on his personal life because he had to move so often. But the main issue to him has always been public service...
...loved Mr. T, but I hate the makeup," says Gary Coleman, 15, who spent more than two hours dressing up as his oversized hero for the season premiere of the NBC series Diff'rent Strokes. The A-Team spends a week filming in the Drummond apartment, and little Arnold has an identity crisis when he learns that his new girlfriend is only using him to meet Mr. T. Arnold's effort to win back her attentions by imitating television's baddest dresser will never get him into the pages of Gentlemen's Quarterly, but it does...
...appearance. If scientifically done polls indicate that someone's appearance or age is turning off sets, why shouldn't a private company be able to fire that person? Men should not be exempt from this standard and in fact are really not. Roger Mudd, some observers say, lost his NBC anchor job to Tom Brokaw because of age and local sports commentator Don Gillis, who is in his 50s, lost his job to a younger person for no other apparent reason...
...TODAY mirrors local TV news in other ways as well. Before each commercial break, an anchor gives a brief run-down of "what's coming up," teasers that, though uninformative, keep viewers watching. When Dan Rather replaced Walter Cronkite, the CBS Evening News joined ABC and NBC is the some practice, one which many newspapers follow as well, but one which USA Today takes to ridiculous extremes...
...even as they slog through solecisms and wail eloquently that the numbers of those who understand the English language are vanishing like the Mayas or Hittites. Droves of purists can be seen shuddering on every street corner when the word hopefully is misused. Their chairman of the board is NBC-TV's Edwin Newman, their chief executive officer the New York Times's William Safire. One author, the late Jean Stafford, had a sign on her back door threatening "humiliation" to anyone who misused hopefully in her house...