Word: bites
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Weisser: The phone rang, and Larry said, "I want to get out of this, and I don't know how." I asked if he had had dinner and said I would bring something over and we'd have a bite to eat and talk about it. I told Julie what had happened, and she said, "I'll bet Larry Trapp is just as apprehensive about us as we are about him. I think we ought to bring him a peace offering." She found a silver ring, and we went over there. As we walked in I touched his hand...
...that character is a trivial concern. Rather, the question is whether, given the sound-bite nature of modern politics, the American people are capable of assessing that complex and contradictory thing known as a person's character, and whether the criteria they use are valid...
...with an anecdote. As many of us were waiting in the long ticket-line outside Sanders Theater, I saw a television reporter and camera man get a sound bite from a young Black man. They asked him whether he thought it was a good thing that Jeffries was going to be speaking at Harvard. The young man said yes--Jeffries was prominent Black figure, and therefore belonged in the lecture series the BSA was hosting. The reporter then asked whether this meant that BSA endorsed Jeffries' reported racism; the young man said no, it did not, and added that...
...little stick. No presidential contender is reckless enough to portray Japan as the Evil Economy. America's congenital optimism may be cowering in the corner, but the candidates -- and most voters -- recognize that the roots of the nation's problems lie within the 50 states. Still, in the sound-bite derby for the White House, Japan's affluence and economic nationalism make tempting targets. Japan owes its current prominence to, along with the recession, the President's sorrowful swoon at the Sparkplug Summit in Tokyo. Never before has the nation's Globe-Trotter in Chief seemed so woefully ill prepared...
Smaller papers have also been struggling to halt invasion of privacy. At the Wichita Eagle, editor Merritt decided in 1990 to change coverage to compel gubernatorial candidates to speak to the issues and "get off the crap sound- bite kind of campaigns." The paper polled a thousand readers and nonreaders before and after the campaign and concluded that readers had greatly enhanced understanding of issues while nonreaders did not. Says Merritt: "We are convinced that the appetite is out there for the kind of journalism all of us would like to do on campaigns. If a candidate is running around...