Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian viewer pays his government 10 rubles ($2.50) a year for electricity for his set and 48 rubles ($12) as a program charge...
Room Service is corny, contrived, and very funny. Most of the fun comes from the Marx Brothers who, although they are not at their best in this 1938 classic, are still great. Even the most sophisticated viewer will laugh at the subtle commentaries of Groucho's moustache and eyebrows. Harpo's silent humor is pantomime comparable to Chaplin's and Chico is always lovable and sometimes hilarious...
...Lewis team would soon pall on audiences if they appeared regularly on a TV series. "What makes CBS so damned brilliant?" he demanded. "Any imbecile knows that saturation is the misery of the entertainment world. We've made it an event when we go on. Mr. and Mrs. Viewer can't tune us in any time they choose. The greats of the business...
...Western Hemisphere has plenty of 525-line stations, and so have Japan and the Philippines. So the viewer who tunes to an empty channel and waits a long time may see a commercial advertising a sharkproof bathing beach or a group of kimonoed actors performing an ancient Japanese play...
...Wide, Wide World ostensibly dealt with Our Heritage but this time its ranging from New Orleans to San Francisco, from Carlsbad Caverns to Canada had a postcard unreality: nothing that the viewer saw seemed to be actually happening. Everything-whether a Cajun picnic or a tour of a three-masted schoon-er-appeared to have been elaborately and ineptly staged for television...