Word: network
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coming Home. Harvard Square, Friday at 3:05 and 7:30 p.m. With Network...
...Network. This film grabbed three Oscars for best actor, best actress and best screenplay in 1976, but it wasn't much of a year. The best thing about this movie about the shenanigans behind the evening news at UBS is commentator Peter Finch's letter-perfect imitation of Eric Sevareid. But once you get over your amusement at that stentorian phrasing you find nothing. This film is as sterile as a 30-second clip of Amy Carter walking to her integrated school. Faye Dunaway won her Oscar for Chinatown, not this lemon. Peter Finch is dead...
...conservatives divide on the deep-seated causes and results of the strike. Liberals consistently emphasize the antiquated administrative and decision-making structure of the University, and believe the strike exposed these inadequacies. "It helped change a very archaic governance at Harvard--the place had a totally outmoded communication network from the top to the lowly, and it helped to re-establish communication network from the top to the lowly, and it helped to re-establish communication on all levels," Thomson, now curator of the Nieman Foundation, notes...
...costs, so its management has turned to audiences outside of the house to try to make up the difference. Over the last two years--during which the Met budget has been relatively untroubled--the national campaign has succeeded in a big way. The "Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network" has been broadcasting Saturday matinees from the Metropolitan Opera House for the last 39 years, but the series of live telecasts begun in 1976 has proved a spectacular stimulant to contributions...
...American minority that forms the gay society. Homosexual men and women are coming out of the closet as never before to live openly. They are colonizing areas of big cities as their own turf, operating bars and even founding churches in conservative small towns, and setting up a nationwide network of organizations to offer counseling and companionship to those gays-still the vast majority-who continue to conceal their sexual orientation. As in New Town, gay people still encounter suspicion and hostility, and occasionally violence, and their campaign to live openly and freely is still far from won. But they...