Word: assertation
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Periodization is a sport which pundits fancy playing. But perhaps now it is time to periodize the self-aggrandizing pundits of television news. The initial feeding frenzy of the O.J. Simpson "case" having subsided for the moment, our collective decency can dare to re-assert itself. The O.J. Simpson imbroglio marks the final evaporation of that always-gossamer line between (what has been charitably called) "television news" and televisual entertainment...
...Jones lawsuit is a case of first impression, meaning that the courts have never before been asked to rule on the essential question: Does presidential immunity extend to conduct allegedly undertaken before a Chief Executive assumes office? Bennett will assert that the logic applied by the Supreme Court in its 1982 ruling in Nixon v. Fitzgerald should apply here as well. (After telling Congress that cost overruns on the C-5A transport plane could reach $2 billion, Ernest Fitzgerald, an Air Force management analyst, was fired. President Nixon took responsibility for his dismissal, and Fitzgerald sued Nixon for damages...
Marvin L. Kalb, director of the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, says activist groups that assert the need for generational change are nothing...
Whether Disney spent $12 million mounting Beauty, as its moguls claim, or a more beastly $20 million, as some theater insiders assert, it has bet big on its belief in a vast untapped stage audience yearning for family entertainment -- even in the honky-tonk heart of Manhattan, even at a $65 top-ticket price, even at a 10:30 p.m. curtain-call time, when much of the target audience should be in bed. So far, business has been good. The day after Beauty opened, it set an all-time Broadway record for a single day's ticket sales...
...sole reason for her success. When his drug addiction leads him to acts of violence, Tina is cowed in fear because she subconsciously worries how she will cope with her career without Ike's guidance. The simultaneous growth in both her personal and professional self-confidence enables her to assert her independence...