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...Censored Bloopers #5 (NBC), rated ninth in the same week, was a virtual clone of Life's Most Embarrassing Moments, but with a salacious twist. The word censored in the title was intended to turn viewers into video voyeurs. The host, Dick Clark, slick and eternally adolescent, sniggered as clips were shown of an elephant's trunk probing a zoo warden's crotch and an overly affectionate orangutan tweaking a newswoman's breast.. On a clip from Hollywood Squares, the late Paul Lynde replied to a question about what can make a monkey cry: "Learning...
Representatives of ABC, NBC, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal, among others, submitted affidavits supporting CBS. Confidentiality for in-house investigations is vital for editors at the Journal, noted Dow Jones News Vice President Edward Cony. "Anything that interferes with their ability to confer with one another fully and candidly diminishes their ability to exercise properly their responsibilities as editors...
...sources might endanger their lives. If they happen to be in East Germany, and if the diaries are authentic, the argument is persuasive: the East Berlin government would not be expected to look kindly on the smuggling out of materials of such historic, and commercial, value. Oddly, however, when NBC Reporter Jim Bittermann sought permission to go to Bornersdorf last week to follow Heidemann's story, he and his camera crew got a surprise: there were no delays, no red tape, and no supervision by officials when they interviewed residents. The townspeople offered conflicting and inconclusive recollections...
...earnings, unusually high during the first quarter of 1982 because of a one-time sale of assets and tax benefits, were down 47% this year, but profits for the company's C.I.T. Financial and NBC subsidiaries moved ahead. Basic industries generally have yet to feel the recovery. Republic Steel lost $35 million in the first quarter, almost twice as much as last year. Armco lost $128 million. Dow Chemical's profits declined from $154 million last year to $69 million this year. Dow President Paul F. Oreffice explained that his industry "traditionally lags a general economic turnaround...
WHEN A network calls a game shows Fantasy, it seems reasonable to expect lucky participants to win either vacations in exotic places of frivolous, fantastic prizes like a dare with their favorite celebrity. But NBC's Fantasy more often deals with the real, mundane world, where economic realities alter the definition of a dream...