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...Rerun status: Nick at Nite...
...feet. Evidently not moved to continue with Bartok on this journey, some of the audience quickly dashed out of the open-air theater after the third movement. At the end of the fourth movement, still more made their exit. The great majority, however, redeemed themselves by coaxing a rerun of the fifth movement as an encore with their unending applause. Clearly, much of the audience realized just how special the evening...
...more for its sociology than for its politics. After a decade of depression and four years of war, the nation was hell-bent on normality. Neither the Korean conflict nor McCarthyism could distract Americans from their rush to claim a place in the rapidly expanding middle class. The standard rerun of the period features sincere men in gray flannel suits and contented women in kitchen aprons smiling at Mr. Clean. And why not? Coincidentally or not, he looked a lot like their amiable President, Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Richard Riordan has never met Ross Perot. His New York-edged voice sounds nothing like a Texas drawl. And where he resides, among the mansions of Brentwood, they think "clean out the barn" must be a line from a Beverly Hillbillies rerun. Still, when a deft Los Angeles Times cartoonist drew him with jug ears and labeled him "H. Ross Riordan," the subject of the caricature recalls with a smile, he was not only amused but flattered: "I felt I'd arrived...
...regulated by Washington and local governments. While cable companies complained, consumer groups and local governments say the FCC did not go far enough. In a separate decision that left Hollywood studios fuming, the FCC allowed ABC, CBS and NBC to produce and own television programs and retain their lucrative rerun rights as well. In erasing industry barriers, the ruling could eventually lead to mergers between studios and TV networks...