Word: booting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firms that knew a good idea when they saw one. Seldom was the approach consistent: some companies concentrated on the soft sell, others pitched high and hard. Last season's Oldsmobile take-off on Broadway's Good News was the gentlest of kisses-and entertaining theater to boot. The songs were subtle, the plot made humorous sense, the verve of the Broadway original was still there. But this year's trend, possibly reflecting tougher competition, is more toward the hard sell. The 1960 Olds version, like the Buick show, hollers sell from introduction to finale. Both this...
Bonanza (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Designed to prove that the shoot-'em-ups are still well-stocked with ammunition, this new one runs on for an hour-in color to boot...
...Lest anyone think that ABC might lack talent after it gives Voice of Firestone the boot, the network wasted no time in demonstrating its taste, beat the competition in signing a prize performer who will not be available until the Army releases him in the spring of 1960. For an estimated $1,000,000, Pfc. Elvis Presley will gyrate and whine through at least one "special" a year for at least three years...
...learned this song from a buddy down home," he drawled, motorcycle boot pounding in time to the strum-scratch arpeggio-scratch of his guitar. "A member of the Party. There's two kinds of party, you know. He was in the one with a capital...
...territorial status, 40 of them spent waiting impatiently for statehood, Hawaii was on its way. For years congressional opposition had been overpowering, for the pivotal Southern bloc of Democrats never relished the idea of a new state whose population and character was so seemingly alien-and so Republican to boot. It looked dark for Hawaii last year, too, when Delegate Burns deliberately stepped aside to let Alaska make its big statehood pitch alone; he was berated at home for not insisting on coupling the two appeals...