Word: themes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skinheads have been linked to the defacing of a new Holocaust memorial and drawing swastikas in public places. Law enforcement officials are "taking this threat very seriously," says Terry Levin of the Cook County state attorney's office. B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League sounded the same theme. In Shaved for Battle, a report on skinhead activities, the A.D.L. called for "careful monitoring" of the movement because of its "disturbing possibilities...
What is missing from Television is a critical point of view or guiding theme -- or, indeed, anything that would lift the series above a mere catalog of Great Moments from TV's Past. The uninspired narration does little more than scoot us from one clip to the next ("Dragnet was the first hit police show. It has been followed by a succession of cop shows."), with little insight into how the medium got from there to here. The series focuses, wisely, on programming rather than the business of TV; still, somewhere amid the clips of Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason...
...Newman's The Glass Menagerie. A TV production arm will make 41 episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The company's Northfork division will finance five films produced by Robert Redford. In partnership with MCA Inc., which owns 49% of Cineplex Odeon, Drabinsky will help run Universal's proposed Florida theme park. Hollywood, star struck by the 39- year-old whiz kid, is whispering that Drabinsky may succeed Sidney Sheinberg, another tough customer, as president and chief operating officer of MCA. "I'm not saying we don't have run-ins," says Sheinberg, "but it's the pushing and shoving...
...system (in which participants punch buttons rather than fill out diaries to record their viewing), and the program jumped back up to No. 1. Rather, who on the air showed the stress of troubled times, appears reinvigorated and relaxed, and the show has an attractive new set and swelling theme music. In an effort to give the newscast a further boost, correspondents from 60 Minutes will start showing up for weekly stints as analysts; Mike Wallace is set for this week...
...World pavilion are ushered next door into a kind of epilogue to the show: a National Panasonic model of the ideal Japanese home of the future, featuring four members of a robot-simulated family, plus dog, attending to their own techno-gadgets. Tokyo Disneyland is not your average theme park...