Word: anchormanly
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...opening image on the Chinese evening news program last week showed instantly that something major was afoot. Instead of his customary Western- style coat and tie, the anchorman was dressed in a somber blue-gray Mao suit. Behind his head, a backdrop of Chinese characters spelled out the legend AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM AN ENLARGED MEETING OF THE POLITBURO. The newscaster's report was brief -- and startling. Hu Yaobang, the man widely expected to succeed Deng Xiaoping, 82, at China's helm, had resigned. Moreover, he had quit as Communist Party chief "after making a self-criticism of his mistakes...
After the program's debut last week, most viewers probably agreed. In an effort to look different from its morning competitors -- Today and ABC's Good Morning, America -- The Morning Program has come up with something to embarrass everyone. Smith, a straitlaced former anchorman for New York City's WCBS-TV, and Actress Hartley, who once filled in as a Today co-host, engage in strained banter on an elaborately homey set. The show's regular features include personal ads, in which singles promote themselves via 30-second video clips, comedy routines that, good or bad, do not go down...
...Courage" should be more than an anchorman's blather...
...conference failed for the simple reason that if it wasn't strategic defense, it would have been something else," the NBC anchorman said. "The president didn't trust the Russians. And he got terribly close to an agreement but then pulled back...
Kalb has received numerous awards for his reporting on issues such as Star Wars and Vietnam. He appears regularly on "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw" and is anchorman for the Sunday TV interview program, "Meet the Press...