Word: soapboxer
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...Half an hour of prime time in New York City costs at least $75,000. Elsewhere, congressional candidates pay $2,000 or more for a one-shot, one-minute spiel-in which, understandably, they tend to decry the high cost of living. TV politicking has progressed from the soapbox to the spectacular. The image-conscious candidate today is not content merely to exhort or debate in a studio. To hold his audience, he commandeers dramatic vignettes and perky musical numbers. In Congress, many incumbents studiously identify themselves with the controversial issues that will assure them net work exposure (see cover...
...wasn't big as a tree. Actually, I thought he was a little too big, and I didn't quite approve of him." As Cloar portrayed him in 1955, his father is indeed as big as a tree, and he himself is a pouting boy in a soapbox racer looking for all the world as if Pa had broken a branch on him that...
...opines Pyne. "They look to me for approbation, as a father image, but sometimes they feel the need to be punished-and they know that I'll punish them." Many of those who do volunteer are extremist polemicists or plain hucksters who will suffer any indignity for a soapbox. Characteristic guests on his syndicated TV show: Black Muslims, prophets of eccentric sects, American Nazis, champions of free love or free LSD, homosexuals, and Helen Gurley Brown...
...clear that Eve of Destruction, as sung by Barry McGuire, is right at the top of the best seller charts. With a dozen more songs of protest snapping close behind, it heralds a radical change for rock 'n' roll. Suddenly, the shaggy ones are high on a soapbox. Tackling everything from the Peace Corps to the P.T.A., foreign policy to domestic morality, they are sniping away in the name of "folk rock" -big-beat music with big-message lyrics. Where once teen-agers were too busy frugging to pay much heed to lyrics, most of which were unintelligible...
...stage has often been used as a soapbox, but Newley's brand of social protest is stale, sour and weary. Since the same message would cost nothing on a street corner, it takes a certain amount of bogus adornment and gall to charge $9.60 for it in the theater. Greasepaint has plenty of both...