Word: rotted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time capsule recording the rot of American TV might well include the tape of the Dec. 17 Tonight show. Within that dispiriting 90-minute reel were a cough-medicine commercial, Phyllis Diller's laugh, and the on-the-air wedding of Tiny Tim, the fortyish boy soprano, to his 17-year-old Miss Vicki Budinger...
...become a parody of its original intentions. For one thing, the Federal Highway Administration has done virtually nothing to implement it. Because the law forbids rural-highway signs, many banks have also quit financing small billboard companies. Without cash for maintenance, a lot of billboards have been allowed to rot on the roadsides-becoming uglier than ever. Big billboard companies-still collecting rent on their legal signs in urban and commercial areas -are buying billboard locations cheap and building new signs, betting that the Government will not enforce the law in the foreseeable future. Some companies have also noted that...
...plotless. It saves time. Nothing is quite so easy as not to write a book for a show. If plot insists on cropping up, be opaque. A story line that cannot be followed may not be exposed for the meaningless rot that it is. Always assume that the audience has the attention span of an agitated grasshopper...
...Rot. What is more, the barriers between Bulgarians and bourgeois foreigners are beginning to tumble. As the most repressive and Sovietized state in the East bloc, Bulgaria is considered to be the only truly "safe" vacationland for Soviet and East German citizens, who are rarely allowed to travel to the West. At the Golden Sands and other Black Sea resorts, these tourists are kept segregated in hotels with names like Moskva and Berlin. But such isolation has proved ineffective, partly because hotels for Easterners and Westerners are often identical. One night this summer, an English tourist, shnoggered on the delicious...
Green Belt. Hickel has obviously learned that the environment is becoming a hot political issue. By his lights, though, he has always been a conservationist. As he sees it, using natural resources wisely requires different approaches in different areas. He backs development in Alaska, where huge forests rot for lack of logging. He backs land preservation near cities where trees are vanishing. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Richard Saltonstall, he outlined his evolving ideas...