Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wives, the ugly ones, seem to be in the way. A lot of advertising space, literary space and screen space is taken by the Miss Lollobrigidas who can, as she boasts, break up families. It must be terribly frustrating for men in these times. By comparison with all this half-clad beauty (with measurements to substantiate), ordinary wives, children, and plain-little-girls-next-door aren't sexy...
From the Canadian border to the outer tip of Staten Island, New York Democrats last week were rousing themselves for the quadrennial rite of nominating a candidate for governor. This year there was reason for some excitement: the cast of characters flashing across the preconvention screen read like a glossary of the great names in the Democratic Party...
...that Japan's U.S. -dictated Constitution sought to destroy had been replaced by a new mystique; Hirohito's 18-day tour was dramatic proof of the change. Too Human. Some Japanese conservatives today would like to restore the old imperial symbolism and put Hirohito behind a bamboo screen like his great-grandfather Komei, who used to sit hidden, with only his bony knees and frail legs showing when he conferred with members of the state council. But the fact is that Hirohito himself, a constitutional mon arch without real power, has become far too human to be easily...
...puzzled as he looked at the television screen. No doubt about it, he was watching a football game. He could even recognize some of the players' names: Choo-Choo Roberts from the New York Giants, Al Pfeifer, who once played end for Fordham, Tom McHugh from Notre Dame. Still, something was wrong. There were twelve men on the field for each team, and no whistles blew...
...repetitious. On his opening show Paar observed: "I went to Phila delphia once on a Sunday, but it was closed." The same joke turned up again on Friday. Paar's idea of early morning games included complaints about the placement of cameras and pretending to misunderstand the off-screen signals of his technical staff. After the first go-around The Morning Show's co-Producer David Heilweil commented: "At least, Ernie Kovacs rehearses his confusion; Paar just creates...