Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general air of unctuous duplicity is an outsider, a Hollywood choreographer brought in to stage the song-and-dance numbers. Appealingly played by real-life Choreographer Michael Kidd, he treats his charges roughly, without cant, but with genuine, humorously phrased care for their welfare. He almost cons the viewer into believing that the film actually has a heart ticking away fitfully some where near its sneer-meter...
...casual, offhand rightness about material, color and meetings of shape, but it is not polemical. No proposition about the future of art is being shoved in one's face. Hence its unlikeness to New York painting in the '60s, to that clamor of nonnegotiable demands on the viewer's eye and sense of history. This is not a matter of good or bad, only of tone of voice, and Smith's discourse is so controlled, so free of aesthetic cliquishness and so fastidious in its loyalty to painting as a still valid medium that he must...
...weeks off but CBS is jumping the gun with BEACON HILL (Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.). The network does not merely admit that the series is based on Upstairs, Downstairs; it is positively insistent on the point. That is a sensible policy, since it is doubtful if the uninstructed viewer could perceive any connection between the engaging PBS bundle from Britain and its vulgar American cousin...
Obvious Situations. The Bellamys were by no means chaste, but they did have something else on their minds. In fact, most of the time, the viewer's interest was less in their romantic affairs than in the manner and circumstances in which they took place, which in turn shed a great deal of light on the conventions of Edwardian England. Much of the fun in Upstairs, Downstairs has been in seeing precisely how guests and hosts conducted a country-house weekend, for example, or how a solicitor maneuvered to blunt the family's democratic impulses and thus keep...
Condoms? Befuddled brains adjusted to the first-ever condom commercial on U.S. television. Viewers grabbed their phones. The KNTV switchboard was jammed all night. Unlike the vast majority of stations around the country, KNTV does not adhere to the National Association of Broadcasters' stuffy code of ethics, which bans over-the-counter contraceptive commercials. But it had aired the Trojans ad only after testing it on the station's own employees, including a Jew, a Catholic and a Baptist, all of whom found it inoffensive. After the viewer protests, however, KNTV General Sales Manager Jack Yearwood pulled...