Word: showmanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magazines were primarily Luce's province, The March of Time belonged to Larsen. In 1928 he produced a series of radio spots distilling news items from the current issue of TIME. The idea developed into The March of Time, an amalgam of journalism and showmanship that lasted until 1951. The program was first broadcast nationwide on CBS radio and then converted to film by Larsen in collaboration with Louis de Rochemont of Fox Movietone News (it won two Oscars in its 16 years...
...LIST OF CORE COURSES came out last week with the expected fanfare. After all, it is the first Faculty review of undergraduate instruction in ten years. Sadly, only Dean Rosovsky's showmanship seems able to provoke consideration of the educational experience of the undergraduate. This should be an issue of more constant concern...
...included Rocky, the Grammy Awards show and Marathon Man. NBC fired off James Michener's Centennial, Backstairs at the White House, a six-hour remake of From Here to Eternity, American Graffiti and The Sound of Music. ABC, which now rules the ratings charts, disdained such vulgar showmanship, but, in fact, it threw in the heaviest salvo of all: the $16 million sequel to Roots, which two years ago drew the biggest audience of all time...
...rousing maneuver, known internationally as the "Thomas flare," is a flashy series of wide-swinging leg moves performed on the pommel horse and in the floor exercise. To win the Olympics, Thomas will have to beat the Japanese, who are already studying his techniques and who marvel at his showmanship. Indeed, Masahide Ota, a top Japanese gymnastics official, admits he is urging his stars "to be as original as Kurt...
More than showmanship will be needed to strip away the cocoon of regulations that has kept the trucking industry insulated from competition. Kennedy's bill, which will be followed by one being drafted by the Carter Administration, is only one step in that campaign, a key part of the Administration's anti-inflation drive. Many regulations will have to be torn down by their creator, the once lethargic Interstate Commerce Commission...