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...Sourest Grapes: From executives at CBS and NBC who accused top-ranking ABC of running junk-then launched a desperate search for the same kind of junk...
Such snarls have won Deeb, TV and radio critic for the Chicago Tribune, a reputation as the wolf-man of the air waves−the sourest, crudest ravager of the medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus. Deeb's daily diatribes, now syndicated to 60 papers, do not merely dissect new shows but also provide inside accounts of broadcast-industry greed, timidity and assorted other failings. Deeb has described lavish network press junkets in embarrassing detail, disclosed power struggles at local stations, and even exposed the suppression of an abortion documentary at WON, the Trib...
...that fits his nature and associations. But for him to go out of his way to denigrate the success and poison the esteem of a wide audience for a man whose earthy and forceful works do not fall into the critic's category of approved art constitutes the sourest of gripes. For him to state that,every self-respecting art historian since 1965 would bolster his argument against Benton is ridiculous...
...another winter that has begun to creep in unnoticed. It is a whole new kind of season, fraught with inconvenience, deprivation and uncertainty. The chilling prospect of an energy crisis has been in the air all autumn, but Americans are just beginning to realize that the winter of their sourest discontent is at hand. As December arrived last week, power cuts were beginning in the Northeast, energy experts in Washington were saying that gasoline rationing is all but inevitable, and filling stations across the country began a presidentially ordered routine of Sunday closings. Fewer lights, or none, glittered on outdoor...
...sweetest things turn sourest...