Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Casey, it was the story of a lifetime. A television cameraman for WSB-TV, the Atlanta affiliate of ABC, Casey narrowly escaped death last week as a Georgia tornado flattened his mobile broadcasting van. Casey's tape of the tornado was dynamite. Alerted that evening by WSB that the story was being transmitted by satellite, ABC News decided to use the gripping footage as its lead on Nightline. By the time it did, however, thousands of viewers had already seen Casey's emotional report on Cable News Network, an ABC rival...
Cable's growth has made it harder for local stations to win viewers as well. The affiliates are especially hard hit, since they must take 21 hours a week of increasingly unwatched prime-time network programming. They are reluctant to give up that burden, since they receive at least $140 million a year each from the networks for shouldering it. Independent stations have somewhat more latitude, but both groups are hungry for programming that sets them apart from cable and from each other. Among their alternatives are better movies and syndicated reruns of popular network sitcoms like Cosby, Cheers...
This adaptations-only rule has been in full force as five song-and-dance spectaculars in rapid succession have reached the Broadway stage. Grand Hotel, which opened last week, and Meet Me in St. Louis are influenced by films that were in turn based on books. Gypsy, which also opened last week, stars Tyne Daly of TV's Cagney & Lacey in a revival drawn from the memoirs of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. Prince of Central Park, which quickly closed, derived from a book that had also prompted a made-for-TV movie. Brecht's own The Threepenny Opera, featuring rock...
...stores wait patiently until the end of Thanksgiving to unveil Santa's workshop. Now, of course, four-year-olds are still gorging on Halloween candy when the Saturday-morning ads begin their incessant shilling for Christmas toys. In a nation where the mall never palls and seven-days-a-week shopping seems enshrined as a civic religion, Thanksgiving stands out as an oasis of tranquillity and a reminder of the values that once tempered America's materialism. This Thursday give thanks for the one holiday that cannot be bought...
About one matter there was no dispute: three terrorist leaders were shot dead last week in the suburbs of Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo. Government security forces killed Rohana Wijeweera, 46, fugitive founder of the terrorist Sinhalese People's Liberation Front (J.V.P.), as well as two other J.V.P. officials...