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Still, the networks rarely change a winning team, and NBC News has recently had some lukewarm seasons. As a producer, Frank first united Chet Huntley and David Brinkley during the 1956 convention coverage, but the pair's breakup in 1970 left a vacuum in NBC's flagship evening news that has never been satisfactorily filled. ABC's aggressive team of Harry Reasoner and Howard K. Smith has chipped away at NBC's ratings, and CBS remains ahead in the competition. On the plus side-in prestige if not revenue-NBC is the only network running regularly...
...earlier film), but has significantly less grain and better color reproduction. The gamble worked. The record 3,800 frames that were shot by the astronauts with their 70-mm. Hasselblads contained hardly a flawed exposure. What is more, even after being exposed to the vacuum of the moon, only a few of the 165 to 170 frames in each film pack were damaged; there were barely visible hairline cracks in their thin chemical emulsion...
Deliverance, John Boorman's best film yet doesn't have anything new to say (thank God) about the lack of morality in brute nature. Still, its pro-civilization sentiments are refreshing, its recreation of a moral vacuum in Georgia backlands terrifying, and its pure adventure sequences on the Cahulawassee. River among the best action filmed. John Voight turns in a fine star performance as a symp turned strongman...
...exploitation of art. And one remedy that was proposed with increasing frequency was the abolition of the art object itself-anything that could be bought or possessed. This was not a new idea. Unfortunately, when used as a principle of art activity, it caused an eddy-even a vacuum-in which the avant-garde is immobilized today...
NINETENNTH CENTURY AMERICAN philosophy was the stepchild of our literature. What we had of it came secondhand from Europe, and often even our best authors garbled the echo. Given this vacuum, it is surprising that our one sensible and consistent 19th century philosophical masterpiece have been so often praised for his least accomplishments (as a naturalist and social entice) and so rarely credited for what he achieved as poet and prophet. Harvard Philosophy Professor Stanley Cavell argues in his newly published essay. The Senses of Walden, that the neglect of Walden stems from the failure of philosophers to take Thereau...