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...television and film operations were headed for losses of nearly $3 million that year. "We gave him all the dogs and said, 'Make something of them,' " recalls Chairman Andrew Heiskell. "He managed to pull it off." By the close of 1979, the video group was a smash (pretax profits: $68.5 million), and Dick Munro was executive vice president and headed for the top of Time...
...KABC program director when Grant arrived in 1975: "People are tuning away from soap opera to listen to the radio shrinks because they can tune into the bedrooms of real people rather than just listen to actors." In fact, Grant's kaffeeklatsch counseling has been such a smash that stations around the country, particularly on the West Coast, are rushing to clone her. Marr, now at Seattle's KVI, has hired Jennifer James, a cultural anthropologist. Station KXRX in San Jose has taken on Psychologist Thomas Tutko, while San Francisco's KSFO signed Psychologist Bonnie Ring...
...Dumpty off the church wall so he cracks and his yolk runs down the block and then gathering it all up and making scrambled eggs for the congregation. Rifkin believes the Pentecostals, with their focus on the born-again experience as the essence of the Christian life, will help smash the walls of sectarianism, uniting people across denominational lines and even reaching to the Catholic Church. Given the extraordinarily rapid growth of the movement and the impressive (or frightening) infrastructure already in place--the hundreds of Christian TV and radio stations, schools, businesses, nightclubs, political associations--Rifkin's argument that...
Begin's policy over Arab land in the West Bank can best be described as smash and grab. Was Camp David some kind of insincere diplomatic maneuver on the part of the Israelis with which they had no intention of complying? If so, Egypt has paid the price of isolation in the Arab world for nothing...
Against the Wind (Capitol). Out a few weeks, and a thorough smash, this album is a collection of loose-limbed rockers and high-reaching ballads. Every cut has its eye fixed on the top of the charts with such calculation and skill that listening to the whole record straight through is like being held for ransom at WKRP. Seger is a topflight regional rocker out of Detroit, but this time around he is sticking to formula so rigidly that he has started to rewrite himself...