Word: bang-bang
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...heat is on to produce footage to accompany what some newsmen call "Mr. Haig's war." Compared with earlier days, there is less camaraderie and pack journalism, there are fewer collective safaris. The competition often borders on frenzy. The TV networks are under pressure to produce bang-bang. "Bang-bang," explains one network TV producer, "is the hook that gets it into the tin. A massacre will do it also." But the army and the guerrillas are not always cooperative. At times there is no bang-bang-at least the networks and still...
...Ambassador to London Kingman Brewster believes that envoys in this era could actually be more rather than less useful, mostly because they can pro vide "real perspective" and "not just the flash-flash, bang-bang, instant short focus on every dramatic event." Although Brewster favors selective summitry, he argues that only diplomats on the scene can provide the "accurate perceptions" and "nuance and detail" that are essential to the summit participants...
...bang-bang goals tamed the charging Tigers, and for the remainder of the game they were unable to control play for more than a few moments at a time...
Eliot padded its lead in the fourth quarter with a pair of bang-bang McCann touchdown tosses to lanky sophomore Brian McAndrews. The scores came on identical fly patterns down the middle, the scintillating snatches covering 65 and 70 yards, respectively. John Hall added the extra point on the final tally...
Enter the fifth week of the season and, bang-bang, the Crimson--by virtue of the Dartmouth win--has emerged as a crunching football machine...