Word: watchfulnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Linda Ronstadt sets a daunting standard and casts a long shadow. But watch while Karla Bonoff comes out, all on her own, into the light...
...songs are at once genuinely poignant and strongwilled, with lines of startling grace: "The people I've seen/ They come in between/ The cities of tiring life." Put lyrics like that together with a typically luxuriant Bonoff melody and there are clear indications of a formidable talent. Watch her perform in her still uncertain way, singing sweet and simple, and sometimes flashing her fast, foxy smile, and there are strong intimations of stardom...
Rises on other imports are adding to the pressure: a Pentax camera that cost $285 late last year will soon be up to $330; in two months a Swiss Omega watch has jumped $100, to $495. Wholesale jewelry prices, pushed up by rising gold prices as the dollar has waned, were up 30% last month. In the Washington, D.C., area, half a gallon of Johnnie Walker Red Label Scotch is up $1, as is a fifth of Courvoisier cognac; wine importers have said that price increases are coming...
Each year television executives perform their own rites of spring. They hide away in dark screening rooms, watch dozens of hours of pilots for new shows, then emerge, red-eyed but exultant, to announce what the American public will see in the fall. Last week both ABC and CBS ended their ceremonies with the traditional flourish of self-congratulatory press releases; NBC was due to announce its schedule this week. This year, however, the ceremony seems more like a rehearsal than the real thing: Fred Silverman, the high priest of programming, has yet to make his entrance, and everybody...
...only more of the same. "We're in the jiggle stage," says Dorkin, "and all three networks will be running girlie shows next year. The sex is more implicit than actual in those shows, and the titles are usually more titillating than the shows themselves. But people do watch them...