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...surprise, then, is that two weekly shows about Viet Nam have established themselves on the prime-time schedule. To be sure, both of them -- CBS's Tour of Duty and ABC's China Beach -- add plenty of TV fabric softener to the abrasive material. Each fills its sound track with '60s pop songs, as if Viet Nam were just another trip down nostalgia lane, like high school mixers and afternoons at the malt shop. Both have taken a predominantly male experience and leavened it with female characters and soap-opera story lines closer to Dallas than Saigon...
Carole Simpson, ABC news correspondant and family reporter, said the media is beginning to respond to the greater attention politicians are giving to family issues...
...nominations were announced in a predawn news conference at the headquarters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Oscar trophies will be presented March 29 beginning at 6 p.m. PST in a ceremony broadcast nationally by ABC...
...perennial frustration of blacks in their attempts to rise above the playing field was crystallized by a 1987 ABC Nightline program on which then Dodger executive Campanis uttered a stream of chilling biases. "I don't believe it's prejudice," he said of a system that has entrusted just a handful of teams to a total of three black managers -- Frank Robinson, Larry Doby and Maury Wills -- retaining only Robinson in Baltimore at the moment. "They may not have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a field manager or perhaps a general manager." That's when...
These workers aren't the first people to glorify the '50s: the American media has been doing it for years. Most Americans view the '50s as an era of peace and prosperity. Fonzie and ABC made millions by perpetuating this image. Theater and television make the decade seem almost mythic...