Word: syrups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doctor's orders, this show is forbidden to anyone who suffers from too much sugar. After a fairly sprightly opening, the "Julie Andrews Nostalgia Hour," as the series should be named, has become so mired in goo-a mixture of honey, corn syrup and Grandma's Geritol-that even the star seems unable to move...
What is a "directional sign"? The House Public Works Committee defines it so broadly that almost every extant billboard could qualify: SLEEPY TIME, MOTEL, 12 MILES, for example, or SUPER GAS, NEXT RIGHT, Or STRAIGHT AHEAD FOR MAPLE SYRUP. But that is not the worst of it. There are now some 800,000 billboards-technically illegal under the beautification act's language -lining about 200,000 miles of rural roads. If Congress authorizes six outdoor signs per mile, the U.S. could legally have 1.2 million billboards in its future-a net addition of 400,000 signs...
...makes an interview great; to others, of what makes an interview grate. Recently Russian Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko was so nonplussed by her political probing ("Why are you allowed to travel while many other Russian writers cannot?") that he later de scribed her off the air as "a hyena in syrup...
...history of drama?need not become the exclusive province of the antique dealer or the rock group. In style and substance it can be as flexible as a film, as immediate as a street scene. Lyrics need not be laundry lists; melody need not be cacophony or syrup. Sondheim's experiments with sonority may sound tentative to the trained ear, but they are bold charts for himself?and for future composers as well. And his words demonstrate that the great tradition of Broadway songwriting, from Berlin through Porter and Hammerstein, is still alive...
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (NET): "You make each day a special day by just your being you," announces Fred Rogers on each show. The message could be written in Karo syrup, but behind the modulated tones there is a calculation and a moral. Rogers, 41, is an ordained Presbyterian minister with ten years of broadcasting experience. His goal, he says, is to "help children recognize jealousy, rage, sadness and trust as facets of loving and being loved." His NET program is, in the deepest sense, a Christian show, aimed at a reassurance and realization. A typical song speaks of nakedness, "some...