Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bernstein said yesterday he got the idea for a College Bowl team last summer when he was bored on the day of his sister's wedding and turned on the TV to see the reborn College Bowl television show...
Teams from the 15 national regions will meet in Miami for the national championship. Art Fleming, game-show host, will moderate the event, a prospect the team members say excites them...
...real problems began in June 1972, when then-President Richard M. Nixon vetoed a bill that would have provided long-term funding for public broadcasting. Nixon charged that broadcasters had deserted the essential concept of local programming recommended by Carnegie I. Yet recently released documents show that underneath its public statements, the administration was really criticizing public broadcasters for their anti-Nixon viewpoints. A memo to H.R. Haldeman from Clay T. Whitehead, then head of the Office of Telecommunications Policy, reveals a plan to quietly purge public television's anti-administration spokesmen. John Erlichman advised that the "best alternative would...
...Medical Area Services Organization (MASCO), which is owned in part by Harvard, "asked us to figure out a way to show the positive economic and financial aspects of these hospitals, as it would have a salutary effect on easing the long run discussions about tax-exempt property in the city." James E. Howell, a senior vice president of the First National Bank of Boston, which performed the study, said...
This is a newer, more modern Holmes, a man not afraid to show his emotions, a man with nerves and real red blood, just like the rest of us. The idea is not entirely a bad one. Who among us has never wished the sleuth would experience just a little uncertainty, display a tiny bit of insecurity, or even just once show a little warmth toward dear, chubby old Watson? It's the execution here that is overdrawn. This Holmes at one point looks at the unsuspecting Watson with a gaze so rich in emotion and so reminiscent of Captain...