Word: watchfulnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bunker is an ideal way to use them, especially since one may even laugh at Bunker, the buffoon. But research on All in the Family shows that its impact is to reinforce the prejudice of those who are already prejudiced. There is very little movement ideologically among those who watch it. Indeed a faculty colleague reported that while in the South observing a White Citizen's Council rally, to be held at 6 p.m., he was astounded to hear the reason for the early start. The speaker ended the rally, with a reminder, "Now let's go home and watch...
...assistant director and three cameramen scurried about the taping set, the staffs of both Nixon and Frost went to separate bedrooms from which they would watch the taping on monitors. The staffs were not allowed to communicate with either of the on-camera adversaries once taping began. Despite the high stakes involved, the Frost and Nixon teams mixed easily and cordially. Nixon often engaged in his stilted small talk when off-camera. He willingly obliged autograph seekers awaiting him outside the guarded gates as he left, smiling broadly as he chatted with them. Reporters were not allowed on the property...
...moves into a market whose potential has been limited by all the fuss attending conventional home movies: the wait for an exposed reel to come back from the developer, setting up a projector and screen, threading film, dimming lights, pulling everyone away from the television set long enough to watch, then putting everything away again. When compared with sales in the giant amateur-still-photography market, home movie sales are small change; annual camera sales have declined from about 1 million units in 19-72 to around 650,000 last year. But Land believes latent demand is there and that...
...visitors who come to his messy office a business card that reads, MY CARD. He is nervous about his prime-time debut, convinced, like the new boy in school, that he won't find any buddies. If he is too outrageous, Chase fears, "people will switch channels and watch the semifinals of the archery." But confidence does not desert him for long. "When you're talking about a prime-time television special, you're thinking in terms of anywhere from 30 million to 80 million people. I'll be going, of course, for the 80-million...
...then ate a brunch consisting of scrambled eggs, bagels and lox. Afterward, He relaxed by lying on the living room sofa but He soon became bored because there was nothing to do. You see, He had not yet created the Sunday comics or television so He could not watch the playoffs...