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...networks lately have shown increased willingness to examine TV's flaws in public. Still, documentaries in the expose vein - regardless of the specific subject - have problems on network TV. Says Av Westin, executive producer of the Closeup series: "Sponsorship has been slack. It's not an easy sell." In the New York market last week, Closeup's commercial slots were filled with public service announcements and plugs for upcoming ABC shows. And, though ABC showed spunk in airing the program, it did so on Labor Day. Any subsequent Monday evening would have assured a larger audience...
...critics of the food and decor at McDonald's, for example, with Ihe assertion that "the function of the fast-food business ... is quite simple: Women's Liberation." That is, it frees Mom from shopping, cooking and washing up, so don't complain. In the same vein, "suburban sprawl is a pejorative phrase that describes perhaps the most comfortable mass residential living conditions in history...
Lawrence Welk isn't very well known, but the good word is that his music is in the same vein as Sanders's. He's playing at the usually staid Boston Garden Thursday night, and make sure you have your head screwed on tight before you go or Welk will blow it away...
...Kays who used to back up Otis Redding have been on their own for the last few years, producing one big single, "Soul Finger." They're mostly instrumental and play in the mid-'60s Memphis-cooking vein. At Paul's Mall Monday through Sunday...
...same ailment that President Nixon suffered from during his Middle East trip. An inflammation of a vein, it can be fatal if a blood clot breaks loose and travels to the lungs or brain...