Word: shad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their respective interests, the arts and sea life. The National Symphony fiddled through Rimsky-Korsakov last week to mellow members of Congress who must vote on endangered federal funds for the arts. Wherever one dines these days in Washington, there is, over the $50 (for two) lunches of shad roe or the $100 (for two) dinners of partridge, a whole new vocabulary. Men and women who used to cut deals, apply pressure and give each other the treatment now talk about safety nets, marginal tax rates and econometric models...
...anything but myself. If I start trying to act, I am lost right away. I can't talk any way but the way I talk. I am physically unable to read anything written by someone else." The results of this inability have been remarkable. Says Executive Producer Shad Northshield at rival CBS: "Brinkley is the best writer developed...
...than its share of Iranian scoops. Partly as a result, the network has been nosing out NBC for second place in the evening-news ratings race with increasing regularity, and is even closing in on CBS, the longtime leader (see chart). "ABC is developing an authentic success," concedes Robert ("Shad") Northshield, executive producer of CBS's adventurous new Sunday Morning magazine show. "They are one hell of an outfit." Adds Press Critic Edwin Diamond: "Roone Arledge is Captain Success...