Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ernie Kovacs-Steve Allen days, with slouchy, sentimental Jack Paar picking up the pieces left by this season's witless nightclub gossipists. For the first time in its ten years. Kraft TV Theater will maintain its $50,000 winter budget despite polls that indicate a viewer decline in summer. Tentatively set for Thursday as NBC's biggest summer show is a new "low highbrow'' quiz called High Low with Charles Van Doren as a panelist. Continuing live in their oldtime slots: Twenty One, Steve Allen, Alcoa-Good-year, Lux Video Theater. Good Music-Making Perry Como...
Spread on the museum's walls, Picasso's works provide the viewer with a journey through 50 years that changed art more radically than it had been changed in the 500 years before. It is a journey conducted by the man who, more than any other, did the changing. Picasso himself obligingly recalls his point of departure with an early canvas. Le Moulin de la Galette (see opposite), painted when he was 19 and a fiery-eyed Spanish provincial on his first visit to Paris. "Banal but talented," pronounced Painter Amedee Ozenfant, "and that...
...shingle factory than a rigorous analysis of reality in terms of planes rather than lines. In such works as Girl with Mandolin, where the figure and background have been broken into sharp-edged, sculptural planes, with the mandolin and model's breast distorted to carry the viewer's eye around the bend, there is today a kind of elegance and even a sensual formalism...
...backed up Edward R. Murrow in his celebrated 1954 editorial against Joe McCarthy). But in the end-after speeches deriding the network board of directors as "careful coupon clippers'' and the advertising agencies as "prudent dispensers of panaceas and happy endings"-the commentator gets fired. The viewer is left to judge between the newscaster's demand for free expression and the network president's case against giving so much power to one man. In effect, the script gives the reader fresh reason to wonder whether a medium of communication dedicated first to selling things, and also...
Hemo the Magnificent, presented by the Bell Telephone System on CBS, was a costly monument to the low opinion that some broadcasters hold of the U.S. viewer's intelligence. Written and directed by Frank Capra as the second in a special science series (the first: Our Mr. Sun), the film told the story of the blood and how it gets around. It was doubly condescending in assuming that 1) viewers must be approached at the grade-school level to woo their interest in science, and 2) the circulatory system is so intrinsically dull that it takes...