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...never thought I'd hear the words 'an ABC night' " marvels TV Consultant Mike Dann, who was chief programming strategist, first for NBC, then for CBS, from 1948 to 1970. To the viewer, ABC "nights"-meaning in TV jargon the nights the network swamps the ratings-are not much different from the other networks' fare. ABC's top shows are only too familiar comedies such as Happy Days and its offspring Laverne and Shirley, sci-fi fantasies like The Six Million Dollar Man, from whose stainless-steel rib was cloned the Bionic Woman...
...aware that his arrival in the camps hinged on a series of accidents, his look of terror and disbelief forces us to view the holocaust afresh. After thirty years of cultural bombardment by images of Nazi atrocities, that a director should be able to make even the hardened viewer consider their enormity, as if for the first time, is a remarkable achievement...
...third of the $150 that the highest priced SX-70 sells for at discount. Yet it does the same thing that the more expensive SX-70s do: at a touch of the shutter button, a white card is released that develops into a color picture before the viewer's eyes...
...which he assures me is penetrating and uplifting. Most of them (the reviews) seem to deflect off Barry Lyndon like poorly aimed arrows. Kubrick evokes 18th century Europe with a historians' eye for detail in his cinematographic version of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel. He succeeds in transporting the viewer to the aristocratic world of the 1760s and stuns us with his well-designed shots of landscapes. But Dinah, the acting! Ryan O'Neal proves three things: first, only one O'Neal can act and her name starts with a T; second, looking pretty is not reserved for leading ladies...
...cracking jokes is kidding yourself, and this is bound to bring Mary Hartman! a different audience from the people who enjoy taking the real soaps seriously. In fact, all soaps are a solitary trip on which the individual viewer's imagination is given free rein. No two fans ever understand a soap situation quite the same...