Word: man-in-the-street
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Letters to the editor, phone calls to station managers, and man-in-the-street interviews convey the same message. Even papers like the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Phoenix Gazette, which have remained relatively uncritical of the President, receive letters of outrage when they run straight news stories about Watergate developments. "We did not elect the press," Reader Betty Noble told the Philadelphia Bulletin. "We feel more strangled by the press than by our politicians." Says Bill Eames, news director of KNXT-TV in Los Angeles: "Basically, what we hear back from viewers is 'So enough already!' " Station executives...
Claudio is an ordinary, weak man-in-the-street, caught with his pants down: he is just about the only believable person in the play. Shakespeare was remiss in giving him only a couple of lines in the second half of the work, and, when he finally turns up alive after being reported dead, in having him and his sister Isabella say nary a word to each other. In the present production, however, this is just as well. Richard Backus '67, who was so fine recently in the Harvard Summer School Repertory troupe's Ah. Wilderness! and in Promenade...
...difficult to tell who the Democratic presidential candidate was, George McGovern or Edward Kennedy. Whenever Kennedy appeared with McGovern, the crowd invariably doubled. Time and again, cheering spectators would brush past the nominee to gush over an embarrassed Ted. McGovern had trouble articulating bread-and-butter issues for man-in-the-street Democrats-a task that comes easy for Kennedy. While living with impending defeat this fall, Democrats dreamed of victory next time with Ted. No wonder that before the final votes were counted, Kennedy was being touted...
...radio shows' linear style of plot development has been transformed into a fragmented form where the current vignette being enacted is interrupted by flashbacks to examine what has gone before, and where a single word in the dialogue can trigger the introduction of a set of man-in-the-street interviews on the subject in question. Besides having the form of an experiential montage held together by the relationships between characters, Harvard Square uses separation of recorded voices, sound effects, and background noises on eight tracks to add depth. (When WBUR switches over to FM stereo in the next...
...mainly seems disappointed that they developed from anarchism to Marxism-Leninism to Maoism. Jones skirts most of the political conflicts, reacting superficially to DeGaulle's and Pompidou's TV speeches. (Either they looked strong or they stammered.) The only important elements he captures are those of climate and man-in-the-street opinion, of the restlessness brought on by balmy days and the solidarity shown by a humane people when their children are brutalized...