Word: anchormanly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McGovern. Last week the New Republic quoted him as saying he would be honored if asked to accept a similar spot on Republican John Anderson's independent ticket. Obviously such a remark must have given CBS fits, putting in jeopardy in the midst of the campaign its star anchorman's reputation for neutrality. Cronkite, off on a sailing holiday, said he had been "misinterpreted." The stir makes a point: as the man the country trusts most to bring it the news, Cronkite seems to have a calm and sensible response to events. What if he were...
Cronkite retires as an anchorman in 1981. He considers himself independent, has never registered as Republican or Democrat, and doesn't always vote. "I'm not totally pleased if people find me more trustworthy than others-that's what we're all about in this business," he says. Besides, the trustworthiness is in the impartiality: "As soon as you start to delineate your positions, you'd start to lose them. Another factor: I know I can't make compromises to suit the people that would put me up, that I'd have taken...
...have to tell you things are bad," intoned Howard Beale, the anchorman-cum-savant of Network. Neither...
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...Although the elements change as swiftly as the shapes of clouds, the weathercaster's three-to-four-minute performance is, in its discipline, as rigid as a sonnet or a haiku. The ritual be gins with the anchorman passing the baton with an oafishly merry transition line like: "Well, buddy, you sure did it to us yesterday, didn't you?" The weatherman casts his eyes downward with a chastened chuckle, accepting responsibility and thereby obscurely associating himself with nature's Higher Authorities...