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...President intends to talk of his plans for the future of America, hoping to make a favorable contrast with the evocation of the past created by Carter's pilgrimage to Warm Springs. But officially or not, the President will be campaigning hard this week. An edited version of his socko acceptance speech will be shown on CBS-TV. The President Ford Committee bought the air time, for $86,000, because the speech was delivered at 10:30 p.m. in Kansas City?a time when untold millions in such pivotal Eastern states as Pennsylvania (27 electoral votes) and New York...
...execution, yet earnestly convinced that it is offering a panorama of postwar American life, it does not even give viewers the consolation of being unintentionally funny. The only hope is to draw a team from the cast and enter it in Almost Anything Goes. It would be a socko-and merciful-finish for both shows...
...teen-agers and is snaking all over Kansas City, Mo. 's Arrowhead Stadium. Turning toward the stage, the churning serpent finds a lion's voice: "Chicago, Chicago!" As 35,000 spectators pick up the chant, seven young men amble onstage to join the Beach Boys for a socko finale. They are the group known as Chicago. With five guitarists, two drummers and a three-piece brass section wailing, the combined bands form a rock juggernaut that quickly transforms the stadium into an enormous, throbbing, outdoor discotheque. The crowd has been on its feet for most...
...past few years have been dull for leg watchers, frustrated by loose slacks and droopy skirts that conceal only drab gray and blah beige pantyhose. Suddenly, however, legs are coming alive in the dazzling burst of colors, stripes and patterns that characterizes the new socko look...
What happens at this point is that delicious sensation of letting-go familiar to readers of huge 19th century novels, but much less readily available to a moviegoer today. A skilled popular artist -the kind of man who can blend subtly observed details with a gift for socko showmanship-takes over to lead a guided tour of an exotic yet humanly recognizable and completely realized world. That's really entertainment...