Word: rebroadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another of Chase's idols was Comedian Ernie Kovacs, the 1950s master of surrealism whose shows are finally being rebroadcast in a series now on public television. Says Saturday Night producer Lome Michaels: "Kovacs was the consummate television comic, and Chevy has that same sense of how to use the medium. I don't think he'll ever leave it completely." Chase does plan to limit his own tube time, hinting at one reason for abandoning his weekly act on SN: "I certainly don't want to get so overexposed on TV that people...
...this hour-long rebroadcast of a BBC show that created a furor in England earlier this month, an interpreter translated Solzhenitsyn's declaration that in the past two years "terrible things have happened." The West, he claimed, "has given up not only four, five or six countries, it has given up all its world positions." He cited the "loss of freedom" in Angola and the Communist victory in Indochina as examples of the West's loss of nerve and spiritual strength. Moral considerations, he charged, have no bearing on politics in the West. "One should not consider that...
Beirut radio periodically rebroadcast the general's announcement, which was dubbed Communiqué No. 1. The message was ignored by President Franjieh, who remained safe inside his presidential palace at Baabda, on a hill overlooking the capital. The 150-man presidential guard, reinforced with armor units, was on alert and patrolled the grounds. "I am staying on to defend legality and legitimacy," Franjieh announced. "There are three conditions for vacating the presidency: resignation, death or dismissal by Parliament. None of these exist...
...portions of the testimony are relatively innocuous. Gulf, for example, has disclosed that it reluctantly sponsored a rebroadcast of the Tricia Nixon-Edward Cox wedding at the request of former White House Aide Charles Colson. Also, a Gulf official revealed that the government of Kuwait asked it to contribute $10,000 to Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon, who is a friend of the Kuwaiti ambassador-but it is not known whether Hatfield actually got any money...
...Canadian Newscaster Keith Morrison was reading the headlines one morning last month in Montreal on a Today-style TV program carried live across Canada, Weiner splatted a whipped-cream pie across his face. Morrison was stunned, but quickly recovered and wiped the debris from his face; the creaming was rebroadcast on another nationally televised program a few days later...