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February 1977: Signing up with a booking agent for public appearances, he sets his fee: up to $10,000. Takers include Miss Piggy's Pizza Beauty Pageant in Boston and the Vancouver World Belly Flop and Cannonball Diving Contest...
...business on the Nation section's advance story list. Yet for the top editors of TIME and Time Inc., for the 17 Nation editors, writers and reporter-researchers at the convention, and for the magazine's 13 correspondents and ten photographers present, the event became a pageant of sleepless nights and hectic days, hot rumors and cold coffee, convention-floor traffic jams, tired feet and writer's cramp. TIME was blessed with a spacious workroom only a few steps from the floor of Detroit's Joe Louis Arena ("The best convention setup I've seen...
There are more awkward juxtapositions. Camelot is sometimes historical pageant, sometimes operetta. The language veers from the chivalric mode to slangy vernacular. Things begin in a comedic vein with the babbling buffoonery of Merlyn (James Valentine) and the blimpish insularity of King Pellinore (Paxton Whitehead), and then turn somber with the threatened burning of Guenevere at the stake...
...reacted with a surprising forbearance toward the Iranians. But beneath the surface they have marinated in an odd, atavistic cross-cultural rage. Their anger has been ripened by the long spectacle of their nation's ineffectuality and the humiliation of the failed rescue raid, by the nightly TV pageant of Iranian mobs pumping their fists in the air and screaming death threats in Farsi, and by the image of Sadegh Ghotbzadeh's cretinous smirk. Dark impulses that normally stay below, like Ahab's harpooners, begin to straggle up on deck...
...ultimate and decisive week of the season, Guyana Tragedy, a $1.8 million, two-part blockbuster based on the career of the Rev. Jim Jones. Guyana drew 46% of the national audience the first night and 50% the second, wiping out the success of ABC's Academy Awards pageant earlier in the week. "It was all over after Guyana," says Consultant Michael Dann, a former programming chief at both CBS and NBC. "It was the first time in broadcasting history that a single program determined who won the season...