Word: medium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Could one medium high executive ladle out his company's money without the knowledge of his superiors? Wild blandly assured the special prosecutor that he had wide latitude over his generous budget. He was fined $1,000, Gulf paid another $5,000 fine, and the matter was temporarily dropped. But earlier this year, the Securities & Exchange Commission decided to sue many corporations for failing to disclose to their stockholders illegal slush funds. In Gulfs case, the suit led to a series of damaging disclosures...
...major concern is his original brainchild, Marvel comic books. He regards his comics as the best in the world, and he won't let his other interests interfere with perpetuating them. He smiles shyly as he contemplates the burden of his responsibility to his artistic medium: "It's a mission. It's a calling. I figure there's Billy Graham, Mahatma Gandhi...
...everything. I wouldn't dream of it, because there are a whole lot of things I simply know I wouldn't like. But the minute there's an adventure going on I'm there and accessible as hell. Because I really love the theatre, much more than any other medium...
Such snarls have won Deeb, TV and radio critic for the Chicago Tribune, a reputation as the wolf-man of the air waves−the sourest, crudest ravager of the medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus. Deeb's daily diatribes, now syndicated to 60 papers, do not merely dissect new shows but also provide inside accounts of broadcast-industry greed, timidity and assorted other failings. Deeb has described lavish network press junkets in embarrassing detail, disclosed power struggles at local stations, and even exposed the suppression of an abortion documentary at WON, the Trib...
...week) as refreshing examples of intelligent realism, and he almost always praises a solid documentary. Despite his fulminations, he thinks TV, with all its money and hours, does in fact get some good material shown. Says he: "There is more good per week in television than in any other medium−theater, films, records...