Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some 300 journalists, not to mention innumerable tabloid-TV types from shows like A Current Affair and Hard Copy, have converged on this drowsy resort. Local TV news shows, with their marvelous ability to manufacture hysteria, pump images out to the heartland every night, creating the inaccurate impression that the trial is a drama conducted at a fever pitch and that the media coverage is a "zoo." A zoo it may be, but one with very small, very docile animals...
...event does have its inspiring moments. Steve Dunleavy, the Outback Geraldo Rivera, who cut his journalistic teeth at Rupert Murdoch's sensationalist New York Post and now does checkbook journalism for A Current Affair, regularly turns up in public places, stage-whispering into his cellular phone. Dunleavy actually becomes a cog in the machinery of justice when Smith's attorney, Roy Black, shreds the credibility of Anne Mercer, one of the alleged rape victim's principal witnesses, by accusing her of spicing up her testimony after receiving $40,000 from Dunleavy's show...
...Woods typifies the theatre of David Mamet, taking us into the depths of postmodern relational angst. Cristopher Scully's Leverett House production presents the emotional isolation of a man and a woman whose love affair becomes destructive at worst, tenuous at best...
...group's humor was rather well conceived and executed. A parody of the TV show, "A Current Affair," a commercial for wacky orange Din basketball shoes and a new installment of "Din Impressions"--when the group does kooky things with their formal wear--earned hearty stomps of approval from the audience...
...teams set the tone early--six penalties in the first 1:32--and kept up the lumbering pace throughout the game. In fact, the sordid affair ended the way it began: in complete chaos...