Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...labor pool can spell the difference between survival and bankruptcy. Italian industry is bound hand and foot by prounion laws that make it virtually impossible to lay off workers in slack periods, mandate extensive and expensive fringe benefits and tie official factory wages to soaring prices; unionized workers further stage incessant strikes and have horrendous rates of absenteeism. In a sense, the clandestine workers and their employers are reintroducing really free enterprise into a rigid system...
...years or more, nightly network television news has been of a predictable muchness-earnest, responsible, muted. Behind the scenes, huge sums are involved in ratings rivalries, in promotional buildups of anchormen, in bouncing live pickups off satellites, in devising ever more elaborate news stage-sets-but what appear over the air are three lookalike, sedately animated versions of the New York Times. The professional news-gathering staffs of CBS, NBC and ABC have a caste solidarity. Their views generally prevail because the giant networks are concerned with prestige-and during most of the broadcast day, with game shows and trashy...
...familiar face is needed as a "switching agent," but he deplores those elaborate anchorman desks that to him look like airline ticket counters. Not to worry. Now that Brinkley is returning to Washington, from a New York he has never felt at home in, NBC is building two new stage-sets-one for Brinkley in the capital, another for John Chancellor in New York. Neither will have a desk, only a chair. NBC also plans to concentrate more on the day's top story and on business news...
...Since then the illusion of celluloid glamour has turned into the tawdry reality of a Los Angeles neighborhood of 250,000 people harassed by crime and vice, mired in the flesh and drug trades and fast fading into the sunset of American cultural history. Now Hollywood is trying to stage a comeback-a drive to revive a decayed area that still attracts 3 million tourists a year eager to see such bits of Americana as Mann's-formerly Grauman's-Chinese Theater and the footprints and signatures of movie stars immortalized in concrete. Says Mike Sims, director...
...they had been flash-frozen in 1970, demonstrators at Kent State have been trying to prevent construction of a gym near the spot where four students died. Sometimes the '60s reappear as a waxworks item of nostalgia: four young men each night take the stage of Manhattan's Winter Garden to impersonate the Beatles of long ago. Or else a splendid fable of arrogance brought low: those who warned "Never trust anyone over 30" are now losing their hair. The wife of Troubadour Bob Dylan ("something is happening here but you don't know what...