Word: networker
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...network maps showed solid Reagan blue from the Mississippi River west, as the former California governor rolled up margins even larger than Ford's across the plain states and into the Pacific Coast...
...network programs its computer to pick the winners...
...last voter warned about that other fellow, the candidates, like almost everybody else, will be sitting in front of television sets somewhere next Tuesday night waiting to find out who is in and who is not. That is when a truly ferocious contest begins: the three-way race among network news divisions to call 'em first and get 'em right. In that war, victory belongs to the best "software," or computer program, for picking winners...
...will a voter know if he or she lives in a key precinct? One way is to ask poll workers if there is anyone from a network (CBS or NBC) or from the League of Women Voters (ABC) lurking around. In Atlanta, for instance, CBS will station vote reporters in nine precincts. They range from the all-black, heavily Democratic, low-income Precinct 10-T, whose voters will cast their ballots at Turner High School near the Perry Homes Public Housing Project, to Precinct 8-E, with polls at the Margaret Mitchell School on Atlanta's affluent northwest side...
...latter. Farce is a precision instrument: the cuckolded husband must negotiate a labyrinth of plot twists before he opens his bedroom door at the split second his lovely young wife adjusts her peignoir and the milkman defenestrates himself. Farce demands ingenuity, grace and discipline - qualities in short supply on network TV. Occasionally those magic imps Penny Marshall (Laverne) and Cindy Williams (Shir ley) bring it off. Now Chris Thompson and Joel Zwick, two veterans of L & S, have devised Bosom Buddies (ABC, Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.). The first ep isode is as silly as its prem...