Word: ticking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after flying in Europe for NATO, returns to his family in the States. He calls himself the Great Santini, convinced of his worthiness of the grandiose title in a friendly, arrogant sort of way. Keyed up by an unlimited confidence and a "can-do" attitude, what makes Meechum tick is the same patriotic puffery that inspired Lyndon Johnson. His 17-year-old son, his wife, his pubescent daughter and smallest son, find it difficult to receive back into the family a father who seems more monstrous than human to them...
...awry. But the protagonist, Hockney, is not exactly believable. He decides at graduation that he wants to do investigative work, and with a minimum of effort becomes a renowned journalist. He is extraordinarily difficult to identify with, because we get little more than fleeting glimpses at what makes him tick. What could be a complex and moving figure is instead an empty observer who evokes little reaction...
...Nowhere else in the Communist world, with the exception of Yugoslavia, does a Western correspondent have such broad access to the people and institutions that make a society tick," he says. "And nowhere in the Communist world do people speak their minds more freely. That's what makes Poland unique in the Soviet bloc-it is so open and its people so vibrant. That's also what allowed the incredible feat of workers' facing down a Communist regime to take place here...
...awry. But the protagonist, Hockney, is not exactly believable. He decides at graduation that he wants to do investigative work, and with a minimum of effort becomes a renowned journalist. He is extraordinarily difficult to identify with, because we get little more than fleeting glimpses at what makes him tick. What could be a complex and moving figure is instead an empty observer who evokes little reaction...
...Perkins-will go up against CBS's runaway hit Dallas. The vehicle: NBC's Magazine with David Brinkley. Replacing NBC's failed Prime Time, the show will have a new format and a hefty weekly budget of $300,000. Brinkley plans on something different from the tick-tock style of CBS's 60 Minutes and the razzmatazz of ABC's 20/20, but he is rather vague when he talks about Magazine's own format. Says he: "Mostly, the program will be ad lib. We are going to let the correspondents pretty much pick their...