Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposal, which will be reconsidered at the Council's next meeting on March 26, would have asked the University to replace its present criterion of "balance" and allow non-commercial TV and radio to cover speeches, debates, public meetings and the like "without discrimination on any ground of political content...
...range of topics was unlimited with the exception of Vietnam. "We will not discuss the war," said Capp, "but we will discuss either sex or educational TV. You can take your pick...
Today's agent just loves those royalty statements from book publishers. But he also exploits a growing variety of other outlets for his client. Given a hot property and an Air Travel card, he will busy himself selling subsidiary rights to the movies, TV, paperback houses, foreign publishers and serialization syndicates-to say nothing of arranging for new assignments from publishers and setting up lecture tours...
...deceased concentration-camp guards; a school play casts ten-year-olds in a staging of Sade's Philosophy in the Bedroom; a teacher encourages the academic achievement of her boy students by rewarding them in an entirely extracurricular manner; a nun appearing on a Joe Pyne-style TV insult program is publicly reduced to a fluttering wreck when the M.C. savagely probes into her sex life; an aged international entertainment biggie, known only as Star Maker, stays alive on the transplanted organs of his employees...
Comic Irony. Richler, 37, a Canadian who now earns his chips in London as a TV and film writer, delivers his blue bits with the relish of a nightclub comic shocking an audience of miniskirted grandmothers. It is totally irrelevant that the setting of the novel is England; despite its slapstick, Cocksure is well within the American mode of contemporary black humor that U.S. Critic Kenneth Burke has called "the drastic irony of paranoia...