Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gone into dentistry). A listener can even hear the chatter of Debbie's teeth as she is driven to the hospital. Finally, with Bruce exhorting her in the delivery room ("Push, push, push") and Debbie's face twisted, she gives birth to a boy in full view of the camera. "Oh, my God," he mutters...
...been used before." But 25 Sunday-night telecasts later, PBL Executive Director Av Westin confessed despondently: "We took some deserved lumps for our brash we'll-show-you attitude. The year had its successes and failures, but it was not totally satisfactory from anybody's point of view...
Flatulent View, Since each program was padded to fill at least a two-hour magazine format, the arresting segments were buried among too many soporific ones. PBL wasted time too often duplicating the spot news and standard documentary coverage that the commercial networks already were doing thoroughly and more lavishly. There was too much controversy for controversy's sake. And the PBL chief correspondent, Edward P. Morgan, unburdened himself of weekly editorials (always winding up with the line, "That is the shape of this observer's point of view") so flatulent that dial switchers probably thought they were...
...Masterpieces often remain hidden in plain sight," Eliot said last week, "but none more so than the Sistine ceiling, perhaps the greatest painting ever made. It is exposed to view and yet cannot be seen. For one thing, it gleams a long way overhead, 68 feet at its apex, and it is enormous-5,599 square feet. The huge blue vault of air beneath it obscures all but the main figures...
...increasing number of economists and financial men believe that basic changes in the international monetary system can no longer be avoided. Last week Roy Jenkins, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, called for "an urgent review" of the world's monetary arrangements. In varying degrees, that view was echoed in France, West Germany, Italy and Switzerland. More and more, the experts talk of the urgent need to convene another Bretton Woods-style conference, perhaps in Washington, as soon as possible after the Nixon Administration is sworn...