Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blew up a storm. Conservative Swedes were furious (red), and the American ambassador was summoned home for "consultations." No successor has yet been named. Later, Palme adopted a low silhouette; realizing that Erlander was contemplating quitting and that the top job was within reach, he cut back on his TV exposure, tidied up his once sloppy style of dress, even tamed his cowlick...
...years as a TV star, he kept the censors working overtime, cutting out his gamy wisecracks. Now just past his 74th birthday, Groucho Marx is still demonstrating an undiminished capacity for the leering remark. "Would you pull your skirt down?" he asked a coed at a college film seminar in Los Angeles. "It's very distracting, even at my age." Then Groucho called the students' attention to a scene in his 1935 movie A Night At the Opera. As con man Otis B. Driftwood, he was carrying Margaret Dumont's luggage up a gangplank. "Have...
...Richard Nixon and TV...
...what's there that counts," says Raymond Price, a former editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune and one of Nixon's speechwriters. "The response is to the image, not to the man." This, to McGinniss, became the credo of the Nixon TV campaign. "It was as if they were building not a President but an Astrodome, where the wind would never blow, the temperature never rise or fall, and the ball never bounce erratically on the artificial grass...
...most important members of the Nixon TV team was Roger Ailes, a 29-year-old master of TV who met Nixon in the fall of 1967, when Ailes was executive producer of The Mike Douglas Show and Nixon was a guest. Ailes' campaign assignment was to produce Nixon's television appearances. Ailes developed the "man in the arena" format, in which Nixon confronted a panel of questioners and a studio audience. "Let's face it," Ailes told a studio director in Philadelphia. "A lot of people think Nixon is dull. They look at him as the kind...