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...charisma would have sat smartly behind a Formica desk. But then news imitated art: the networks created their own lower-wattage Redfords in Brokaw, Jennings, Stone Phillips. And now, when Redford finally gets into a TV-news movie, he's nearly 60, too old to begin a career as anchor. His job in Up Close and Personal is to mentor the promising rookie played by Michelle Pfeiffer...
Avnet's brightest idea is to call on Stockard Channing, ace resuscitator of mediocre films (see her work in Smoke and To Wong Foo), who arrives mid-movie to perk things up. She's a local anchor who oozes compassion but, off-air, is so cool and hard you could skate on her. She meets Tally for a drink, asks, "Is that actually a banana daiquiri?" and acidly adds, "Spring Break, Lauderdale...
...Hiroshi Kume, a television anchor in Japan, reacting to conservative commentator Patrick J. Buchanan's win in Tuesday's presidential primary. His country's residents have not been very receptive to Buchanan's proposed 10 percent tariff on Japanese trade...
Four tests, based on the same scheme, were used in the experiment. Participants first heard phrases such as "anchor...right higher?" with no knowledge of the imagery task...
Following this preparation, participants were told to visualize certain objects at specific sizes while answering questions about the object. For example, the "anchored right higher?" question asked whether the right side of the anchor was higher in the drawing...