Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burden will fall on the returning veterans. Midfield and defense should be the strong points. Senior wing fullbacks Rob Carey and Boyce Greer had to wage battle with what seemed like armies of opposing forwards last season, but with experience and Herold backing them in goal they should anchor a strong defensive line...
When it comes to TV news broadcasts [Aug. 22], I can live without weathermen who sound like fugitives from a sideshow, beautiful anchor people, "analysts" who produce instant wisdom for any calamity, and minicamera coverage of criminals in action...
...late-night Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, but it is daring, and perhaps tasteless, for ABC to carry such a show in prime time. If the reaction is too strong against it, the series could hurt the entire schedule. But if it hits, it would give ABC the same anchor Tuesday night that CBS had Saturday night with All in the Family, another once daring show...
...like any local girl reporter, to stand before a bombed-out glass front to talk about Puerto Rican terrorists-a story on which ABC breathlessly lavished twice as much tune as the other networks. Such new tactics have generated a flood of newspaper rumors: Is ABC's expensive anchor team of Walters and Harry Reasoner out of favor? About to be fired, about to quit? No. About to be downplayed? Yes. Roone Ar ledge is radically challenging the conventional anchor role itself...
...seconds between two events could add a dimension, a fact, a clarification." To Arledge, the news anchorman's function, "if there is a function, is not just to read a lead-in to a piece of film, but to provide reaction to a story, put it in perspective. Anchor people are concerned with peer acceptance. They find it degrading to educate people because they think they are talking to the intelligentsia. We had a good interview with Sadat, but nobody explained when he mentioned Gaddafi. Not only the slob on the street but the average educated people...