Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particularly revealing illustration of the economic crunch is the case of Mission: Impossible. Paramount Television sells the series to CBS for upwards of $210,000 per episode, plus perhaps another 10% to 15% for one summer repeat. Even at that top dollar. Paramount reportedly loses about $30,000 a week on the multistarred, action-crammed production. Mission will ultimately be a moneymaker-but only after it goes off network and the studio is then allowed to syndicate second and subsequent rerun rights. Thus, though the show may well be renewed, its producers would probably not grieve overmuch if it should...
...faculty would prefer, with good reason, to have no part as a body in student discipline and student politics. Yes, the faculty had indirectly in this case taken a moral stand; but few members of the faculty would wish to repeat it. The next time there would have to be a Committee. The next time was the occupation of University Hall in April and there was the Committee of Fifteen...
...suffer metal fatigue. "Systems die, instincts remain" observed Oliver Wendell Holmes. Unable and unwilling to rely on institutions or revolution, the U.S. has fallen back on pure feeling. The reaction is ominously reminiscent of the '30s and '40s, an epoch beyond the memory of the young?who nonetheless repeat its rhythms...
...ever received was from Director-Choreographer Jerome Robbins. While experimenting with repertory theater in 1967, Robbins bought out the theater one night and invited his cast. He had been impressed by a puppet performance of a scene from Romeo and Juliet; that evening, he asked Peschka and Murdock to repeat the scene, leaving out the words but explaining their puppets' actions and thoughts. When they had finished, Robbins turned and exclaimed to his cast: "That is exactly what I've been trying to get across to you people for months...
After Charles Manson delivered his extraordinary sermon against society last month (TIME, Nov. 30), his trial seemed all but ended. He refused to repeat his testimony for the jury and ordered silence for the three girls, who are his co-defendants in the Tate-LaBianca murders case. Since the defense had presented no witnesses, the only unfinished business was the lawyers' final arguments, various motions and the judge's charge to the jury. Then one of the defense attorneys vanished...