Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four weekly shows so far, the content has been somewhat less compelling than the style. Most successful segments: a film essay on Americans' fixation with auto demolition derbies; savage slashes by Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman at pharmaceutical hucksterism and the futility of "law-and-order"; a muckraking shocker by Author Paul Jacobs on the allegedly slipshod safety standards of the Atomic Energy Commission; and a sketch on romance, True Confessions-style...