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...pure circulation, all three network news shows together attract just 74% of the viewers," says Arledge. He adds with a shudder: "More than a quarter of the people get their news elsewhere. Half the television station owners around the country are just businessmen who can't be trusted to cover news with any responsibility, and their local news directors are extensions of their sales forces." The way to draw many of their viewers to ABC, Arledge suggests, is to have "responsible but vigorous and fresh journalism." Over at the other networks, people wonder how responsible ABC will be once...
...were sold with dignity and decorum, like vintage antiques or old-master drawings. But Bennett Cerf s ego was a volume in itself, and he hawked his wares as if he were conducting the 1812 Overture-with dash, brass and lots of exploding canons. "Everyone has a streak of pure, unadulterated ham," he proclaimed. "Many won't admit it. I revel...
...Cerf thought the two famous authors might Like to meet, but Lewis would have none of it. "No, Bennett. This is my night," he declared. "Haven't you been a publisher long enough to understand I don't want to share it with some other author?" For pure ego, however, no one could match Ayn Rand. When Cerf tried to persuade her to cut a 3 8-page speech from Atlas Shrugged, she simply replied, "Would you cut the Bible?" Cerf once again gave...
...this analyzing why people looted New York during the blackout is a cover-up for pure and simple greed. After the flood, the mayor of Johnstown, Pa., had the right idea by ordering looters shot...
...Haute couture is opera. It is dreams and phantoms and magic," says Yves Saint Laurent, the Sun King of fashion. So it was last week at the showings of the French couture collections for autumn: high fashion had indeed become pure theater. Vanished was the sleek, pantsuited look that Saint Laurent himself once institutionalized, and his revolutionary peasant look of last year was transmuted into costumes more sumptuous, more fantastical, more opulent -and more expensive (typically $3,000 to $10,000 per outfit)-than ever before. Romanticism-from Saint Laurent's Oriental visions to Marc Bohan...