Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...catalogue is needed in order to recognize the differences between one "Lion Attacking a Serpent" made from a plaster mold, and another made from a gelatin mold. Each mold makes a particular kind of scratch on the surface of the piece, which an uninitiated viewer can easily overlook...
...little encouraging to see programs like PBS's National Geographic special The Incredible Machine receiving favorable viewer reaction, as a respite from the commercial networks' deluge of waste. TV should be an occasional form of entertainment or source of information, not a way of life...
...look whose picture's on the telly. If that's not Charley from the butchers, I'll stand you a pint." If Charley it is, chances are he'll wish he'd stuck to grinding hamburger. That is, if the viewer rings up the number flashed on the screen. The Charleys who appear on this London television show, Police 5, are wanted by Scotland Yard. Sitting-room sleuths see replicas of stolen property and real-life crimes re-enacted on their screens, and they are invited to phone in ideas...
Three Days of the Condor. I had two problems with this film. In the first place, I found it difficult to follow the plot--but this was my fault, since the level of difficulty here would hardly stymie a seasoned viewer of Mission: Impossible. In the second place, when I did figure out what was going on, I thought that the C.I.A. was entirely right. Three Days seems to be saying that the C.I.A. is like a big anonymous corporation in which pawns get knocked off in the senseless palace intrigues of the bigshots. Redford's one major policy statement...
...also managing its other troubles more coolly than its competitors. It has no sudden mercy killings on its rec ord yet. When it does make its re placements at midseason, it will widen viewer choices by offering variety shows, not exactly a TV novelty but a breed now not much represented...