Word: wastelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since Sha Na Na burst upon the national rock-and-roll scene with its tour de force performance at Woodstock, I've been an infatuated follower of the group's fifties style and sound. In the wasteland of electric rock Sha Na Na provided a welcome retreat from the overblown basses and haranguing lead guitars that were pummelling listeners of contemporary rock music with monotonous uniformity. They captured me in that first performance, launching what has become an enduring and passionate romance...
...Perry Mason show been castrated? The quality of television declines every year. The "vast wasteland" former FCC chairman Newton Minow described in 1961 has by now been sown with salt. In 1962, The Defenders aired a show dealing with abortion. The advertisers complained, but public letters to CBS were overwhelmingly in favor of the show's sensitive consideration of the problem. Eleven years later, all the dramatic series of the early 60s are gone, and the controversy is over a stupid show called Maude...
...allegations. Two months later, the A.M.A. countered the counterattack and formally asked the FCC to investigate what it termed the "distortion and slanting of news" in the NBC documentary. For its counsel, the A.M.A. hired former FCC Chairman Newton Minow, who once condemned commercial network programming as a "vast wasteland." The A.M.A. also discussed the case with the new National News Council, an independent body established to adjudicate complaints against news organizations...
...weak week, this week. The wasteland at its wasted best...
...Singing Cowboy. Bury me not in the vast wasteland. Another true original, circa 1936, with Gene Autry crooning his way across the prairies and valleys with the greatest of ease. Channel...