Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...executives to soften the intramural slap: "I've not felt any pressure or even heard from anyone at the network, although it's obvious that they knew that we were filming Fanning." (Asked on the show whether CBS was "buying" his opinion, Fanning says: "It just plain isn't true. In the first place, all the networks do it.") Reporter Mike Wallace offers some tart, on-the-air criticism of his network: "Ironically, while employees of CBS News are forbidden to go on junkets, the public relations people in another CBS division are busy setting up such...
...best President" in their stories. Even the L.A. Times ignored its own news service dispatch for a story based on wire service coverage. But a number of major papers across the country did run the blooper-with follow-up corrections-including the Chicago Sun-Times, Denver Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Louisville Courier-Journal, Boston Globe and New York Post. The New York Times's Tom Wicker used the misquotation in the lead of his Tuesday column. Rued Wicker: "It didn't occur to me that the Washington Post would be wrong." As for the Post, Managing Editor Howard...
...full-time occupation, too, as the new executive director of the nonprofit service bureau. She will oversee a staff of 330, extensive product-testing laboratories in sub urban New York, an auto test center hi Connecticut, a law office in Washington, and Consumer Reports, a fact-filled, if plain-Jane monthly that is considered by 2,250,000 buyers to be the ultimate word on the merits and demerits of products...
...Comfort (2) 2-Alistair Cooke's America, Cooke (1) 3-Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller 4-The Best of Life, edited by David E. Scherman (5) 5-The Imperial Presidency, Schesinger 6-How to Be Your Own Best Friend, Newman & Berkowitz (3) 7-In One Era and Out the Other, Levenson 8-Pentimento, Hellman (10) 9-Will Rogers, The Man and His Times, Ketchum 10-Portrait of a Marriage, Nicolson...
...this is abundantly plain in the R.S.C.'s staged reading from her works. The trouble is that there is nothing to dramatize. The lines are autotelic. Adding facial expressions, making gestures, moving about the stage, even if done by three women instead of one, provide no additional dramatic dimension. Nor do they evoke any emotion or achieve any resonance that does not already exist on the printed page...