Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Federico Fellini happily plunked down in front of his television set one night recently. Italy's government-run TV network was showing I Vitelloni, a vintage Fellini film that examined a quintet of Roman loafers. Basta! Gone was a scene−"a decisive scene"−where the hero is refused a job with a comedy troupe because he is not a homosexual like all the others. "Cutting an indispensable part of a film like this offends me deeply," wrote Fellini to the television network, "and so from now on I'm never letting one of my films...
...small telephone switchboard attended by a bored young man. It looks as if it belonged in a flyblown small-town hotel, but it has a space-age name, SCAMA (Switching, Conferencing and Monitoring Arrangement), and it is the center of the world's only global voice communication network. By flicking a switch, SCAMA's operator can talk clearly and instantaneously with NASA stations that belt the globe, including such odd spots as Kano, Nigeria, and Woomera in Australia's desert. When an astronaut is aloft, SCAMA can follow his voice sweeping all the way around the earth...
...house last season to mixed notices. But this year, bravos came in salvos from the gilt chairs; the snouts of television cameras poked through tall, flowering plants like machine guns, recording the moment of triumph for a TV special to be broadcast late this month over the French national network. At show's end, St. Laurent crept down from the head of the stairs, where he had crouched like a small boy peeking at a grownups' ball, to be smothered in the embrace of celebrities and clients like Dancer Jeanmaire, Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes, Cosmetologist Helena Rubinstein...
...Arguments. The test ban treaty proposal by the West calls for a worldwide network of 180 control posts-19 of them in Russia and 16 on U.S. territory-manned by international teams. In addition, flying squads of international inspectors would have the right to make at least twelve on-the-spot checks (known in disarmament jargon as "on-site"inspections) in Russia each year to investigate suspicious explosions. For instance, they would find out whether a given blast was a nuclear bang or a natural earthquake...
...experimenting with a new technique in this program, one of a four-part series. The two men ramble around Mac-Leish's farm at Conway, Mass., and talk about anything that comes into their poetic brains-without the aid (or interference) of a network commentator...