Word: supers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...network's news teams were the real winners. At hours when NBC and CBS were broadcasting the convention, ABC was cornering a greater share of the audience than either with reruns of series like Marcus Welby (38%) and Mod Squad (30%). Even a feeble sitcom like The Super attracted 27%. Network coverage of the Republican Convention later this month will once again be furiously competitive. But public taste being what it is, Round 2, like Round 1, will be a battle only for the runner-up positions...
...Super-Right Bacon...
...super-charged energy the actors generate to maintain a lively pace and thus enthusiastic interest, soon dissipates as one walks away from the play, appearing frenetic in retrospect. And the short developed one-liners which inevitably rise in frenzy to a punch line grow tiresome in their episodic pace, the constant up, down, bang, slap dash, stage clearing, re-engagement of one's attention once more...
Stewart assumes his musical schizophrenia, which is certainly more than you can say for a lot of other people, Jagger and Van Morrison, to name two. He's a singer in a very fine rock and roll band, "Rod Stewart's super-sexist but bawdily irresistible Faces," (as Lester Bangs says in the new Ms.) But he's also a sensitive interpreter of other people's songs, and an equally sensitive writer-troubadour. He makes no preferences, even though I suspect he enjoys the band more. (But that's because I enjoy the band more...
...gets it back before Munich, he might trouble the only wrestler ever to have whipped him: 280-lb. World Champion Alexander Medved of Russia. Another Soviet giant is 330-lb. Weight Lifter Vasily Ivanovich Alexeyev. Agile enough to play volleyball, easygoing Alexeyev has set 54 world records in the super-heavyweight division since March 1970 and is clearly the class of his field...