Television
Terzian, Philip
into female forms of eunuchs. Instead of feeling the kicks and Of course, Margaret must realize that there isn't much bulges of a new human being, they offer us instead empty ...
...Oh Earth...
...We place it in chimpanzees can fill up the air with patter for an hour or two...
...Blue daytime soaps for house- Trudeau and her problems were to be seen on half a dozen wives to weep over, or Tannhauser at the Met, or college shows...
...Motherhood and creativity...
...Listen to my heart...
...That elusive ingredient, chemisTelevision try, could not so easily be found in the series of eager aspirants I paired with Barbara Walters for a week's audition...
...and Jane continues to believe that journalism is in fact the sort The question of creativity is not an either-or one...
...Is that all there is...
...Margaret all emotion, grist for the mill...
...exactly what the Today Show (NBC) and its imitators provide...
...Outside, the cicadas have begun and with itself nowadays, as well it ought to be...
...At last, in of thing she does, a Junior League version of Barbara Walters, this century, we are freed of the bonds of our female bodies...
...how many newspaper stories could she possibly suscourses on mythology read in summer gardens...
...The problem, it turned out, was finding a serious broadcast journalist who was willing to do commercials as well as talk...
...Margaret, for having walked off the set in before they think they did...
...Round our table it is bara Walters and the late Frank McGee...
...Who knows for certain any more...
...He will sometelevision...
...Ants Today Show has always proved that the human equivalents of are crawling round its blue, thinskinned eyelids...
...tain...
...What pang is this goings of its various hosts and hostesses are covered in the that enters my side...
...those instances when exposure may be profitable...
...The featherless...
...Hedda Hopper would Dispossessed of my ancient honors, the baffling wiles of these have known what to do with on-the-air tension between Bargods have made me of no account...
...Wq are free to choose-both...
...The candle is lit...
...ton, D.C...
...They have staff as Dave Garroway, or Jack Lescoulie, or Frank Blair...
...Shut my ears...
...l hey are right to insist that it may be undigon top (or bottom) because both came away looking and nified, but they started down the path to the Alpo can long feeling triumphant...
...Hear the cause of my wrath, mother Night...
...Noise is disgruntled mother-friends have truth on their side...
...Motherhood is and where a great deal can be made of nothing at all...
...consists of three hosts and a news reader...
...God, I wish I could convince myself, lay waste this cold I confess that I almost never see early morning television, question which won't leave me alone...
...Have I given up my best but I have been traveling a lot lately, and one finds oneself work for them...
...Now and then we hear the bird chirping as it struggles to But our standards are different nowadays, and what may survive...
...Its beak is too large for its head to support...
...But that is the genius of television, really, where the facts fit What is any art-form anyway but an attempt to concretely the fantasy, where Jane Pauley can play at being a reporter, express an experienced or imagined emotion...
...member of the Today Show team was a chimpanzee named J. Warily I watch my own grey-eyed Athena as she runs in Fred Muggs...
...It is time to gather And what patter it is...
...have been thought trivial in the past is a deadly serious game today...
...The role of a tough, no-nonsense broadcast journalist, and Mar- news is fresh, the features are geared to the young and the garet, because she protects her privacy at all costs, except in affluent, the interviews are expansions of People magazine...
...At long last the successor was found, and it turned out to be a blow-dried anchorman named Jim Hartz, who lasted for awhile and then WAKE UP, AMERICA...
...The boys follow her excitedly...
...The found a bird...
...He was, in retrospect, as integral a part of the from the garden...
...times gently' correct his colleagues, and often turn out to be 31 August 1979:469...
...She holds it in her cupped hand, it is small and void that he left, however, has been more than filled...
...Instead of feeling the kicks and Of course, Margaret must realize that there isn't much bulges of a new human being, they offer us instead empty interest in her except for her answers to personal questions, bellies of guilt, envy and frustration...
...Jane, because she plays the together to create an entertainment product for the '70s...
...a box and shine a goose-necked lamp on it...
...The comings and the darkness has descended...
...Do what I want to do...
...When Frank McGee died there was trouble finding a suitable replacement for him...
...THERE WAS a meeting of the minds not long ago, of the This is the sort of bogus professionalism anchormen delight in sort that only television can offer Margaret Trudeau practicing...
...It is nearly forgotten now that in the early days an important What is that...
...a righteous huff, and Jane, for having wielded the razor with The upshot of all this is the current Today Show, which those piercing questions...
...When I their pride demands that they carry on about the indignity of say split decision I mean that it is difficult to say who came out selling dog food...
...Both met on Tom Brokaw combines banality with a portentous voice, fertile turf for their points of view, for this was early morning and is therefore the conscience of the program...
...Do my childless-sisters and shaving in a lonely motel and yearning for noise...
...press with a kind of deferential awe...
...returned to his spiritual home, the local news beat, in WashingWHME ARC YOU, J. FRED MUGGS...
...All the elements of In fact, they both had every reason to be happy, for both, contemporary living are covered, and all the ingredients of having entered the contest for separate reasons, felt that they motivational research and interior design have been thrown had done what they set out to do...
...they are a pure product of show business, and yet versus Jane Pauley, two rounds, split decision...
...wringing the truth out of the likes of Cher, or George Burns...
...The Today Show is very impressed and eat...
...warm...
Vol. 106 • August 1979 • No. 15
