Word: anchors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Brokaw dutifully read the words "screws" and "shacks up" on the air. That decided the issue for the NBC Nightly News, which also quoted Carter flat out. But not for ABC, which did not make up its mind to allow Anchor Man Harry Reasoner to quote Carter in full until 15 minutes before that network's Evening News went on the air. At CBS, Walter Cronkite grandpaternally refrained, saying only that Carter used "words mild for Playboy but perhaps a little racy for Sunday school...
...both eleven, an English sheep dog named Obie and a 70-ft. gas-filled balloon. Miffed by the idea of a male stand-in for the action scenes, she has also been doing her own acrobatics, which have included dangling 100 ft. above ground from the balloon's anchor. In between scenes, she has even found time to pose for a cast picture by an old friend: Susie Tracy, 44, daughter of Kate's longtime leading man Spencer Tracy...
Considering the animus that still exists toward the press, it is surprising how universal is the agreement that in the forthcoming debates, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter should be cross-questioned by those paragons of impartiality, journalists. In more paranoid times, anchor men were accused of covertly liberal inflection, and the rise of David Brinkley's eyebrows came under particular suspicion. John Chancellor once locked himself in his bathroom and tried to read a piece of copy before the mirror in ways that would give it different slants. He says he never finished the experiment because each time...
...Network anchor men-men of vast influence but little power-are ideal moderators. Their job has evolved curiously. Ambitious people lust after it. To be an anchor man is to be sought after by hostesses and courted with wary deference by politicians; to cause a stir in restaurants; to be highly visible and highly paid. The nice-guy qualities needed-a pleasing presence, articulate spontaneity, neutral manner-seem easily imitable but are not. Each year local television stations clone platoons of handsomely competent news readers, some of whom are expensively promoted to the big time but do not make...
...skilled anchor man does not palaver, as time-filling radio broadcasters used to, but rarely does he say anything memorable either. His talent is to roll out endless spools of language that inform but do not rile. It is a strange, self-limiting role for garrulous, confident men. Opinionated candor must be held in check; the impartiality that a writer achieves painfully at his typewriter has to emerge instantly, toothpaste-clean, from the anchor man or commentator...