Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central dispute between writers and producers is over syndication residuals for one-hour shows, the payments made to writers each time a network television show appears on an independent station. Writers now receive a flat fee of $16,000 for the first six syndicated reruns, but producers want to pay ! them according to a formula that takes into account total income from a show's sale. Writers say that method would significantly cut their average income, though producers deny this would happen...
Unfortunately the direction makes little use of the dimensional possibilities of the set. Instead, Big Time mimics only the flat qualities of television sitcoms...
...also has multiple amusing moments, usually when Tad Allagash is in tow. In one particularly funny scene, the pair release a vicious ferret in the office of Jamie's former boss while the fiction editor who has rejected his stories falls flat-on-his-face drunk before an armor ornament. And all of Jamie's forays into the Manhattan night are funny in their pathetic way, and this is precisely the sort of humor that...
...Richard Gephardt's (D--Missouri) politics of resentment and trade walls played well in Iowa but fell flat on the more integrated and tradedependent Northeast. Sen. Paul Simon's (D-Illinois) brand of populism was equally anachronistic...
...Fried, who represents the Government before the Supreme Court, sought the advice of Retired Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell. The 80-year-old Powell described Fried as "very upset and concerned." When Meese urged Fried to stay on the job, the anguished official declined to give a flat promise to do so. Instead, he told Meese that the turmoil in the department would not end until Meese stepped aside...