Word: tinkering
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Other early complaints centered on Updike's refusal to tinker with fiction in the approved post-modernist fashion. He recalls, "I certainly did feel left out of the black-humor thing when it was heavily publicized, because it did sound like an awful lot of fun, and they were getting all this serious attention...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy or The Spy Who Came out of the Cold, by John Le Carre...
Bradshaw is counting on Grant Tinker, a highly regarded Hollywood studio executive and onetime producer of the successful Mary Tyler Moore series, to bring back the viewers. Bradshaw appointed Tinker last summer to replace the widely disliked Fred Silverman as head of NBC. The appointment has been praised as a morale booster at the net work. Said an NBC producer: "You don't have to keep your back against a wall for protection all the time now. When Fred was around, you did." It remains to be seen, though, whether Tinker can translate good vibes among his staff...
Norman Conners--Tinker's 888 Tremont St., Boston...
Ahmad Jamal--Tinker's, 888 Tremont St., Boston...