Word: uncertain
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...nighttime decline is harder to explain, but there are probably several reasons. This year's emphasis on specials and miniseries-"stunting," as it is known on Network Row-has confused many viewers, leaving them uncertain when their favorite series will be on. "The old habit of most people was to think, 'If it's Saturday, it must be time for Mary Tyler Moore,' " says Tenebruso. "You can't assume anything any more. Shows are shuffled around like peas in a shell game." If a viewer misses the first episode of a miniseries, he may skip...
Boston TV reporters regularly ask citizens, "What's bugging you?" -and lately a startling number of them have replied, "Nothing." Pollsters report that the people may be fretful and uncertain about the nation's economy, but they are remarkably confident about their own economic futures. The close-in issues of inflation and unemployment, energy and taxes top the worry lists in all the polls, but concerns about far-off Russia or Africa are way down on the list. Despite the ravages of inflation, the median U.S. family's income rose in 1977, and 92 million Americans...
Though he has abandoned his idea of eliminating tax benefits for capital gains, at least in 1978, businessmen remained uncertain and apprehensive about what tax reform might bring. Through word and deed, Carter has also antagonized many other key voting groups. Farmers were disturbed because he had proposed lower price supports than a more generous Congress decided they merited. (At his press conference Carter expressed sympathy for the plight of many farmers but said that he would not have participated in their strike if he were still working the land in Sumpter County, Ga.) Labor was miffed because...
...Greek youth's peregrinations between 1964 and 1972, when Getty Museum Curator Jiri Frel viewed him in Munich, are uncertain. By then, ownership was claimed by Artemis, a Luxembourg-based art consortium. Getty, the late oil billionaire, had begun a collection of Greek and Roman antiquities at his U.S. home in Malibu, Calif., and expressed interest in the statue. But even he balked at the asking price-about $5 million. After his death in 1976, officials at his museum continued the quest for the statue, finally arriving at a deal this year...
Whether He will remain there is uncertain, as is the future of Hustler. The next few issues have closed, but this spring Hustler and its sister skin-book Chic (circ. 436,305) will begin depicting "a healthy attitude toward sex, mixed in with a spiritual message," says Flynt. "We will no longer treat women as pieces of meat." Specifically, Flynt plans to discontinue vaginal closeups, banish all flesh from the cover and sanitize a few regular features: "Asshole of the Month" will become "Turkey of the Month," for instance, and "Chester the Molester" will be renamed "Chester the Protector...