Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...persuade composers to write solo pieces for his chosen instrument. For more than four decades Tertis was Europe's premier violist, playing with such friends as Casals and Pianist Artur Rubinstein, who joined him for a celebrated recital of Brahms' C Minor Piano Quartet during a London blackout in World War II. The Tertis viola, which he designed after his retirement, remains the choice of many leading concert performers...
...PHANTOM OF LIBERTE. A Series of surreal blackout sketches by Luis Buñuel, loosely grouped around the theme of man's perverse pleasure in paradox. Buñuel creates in this film a paradox of his own: a work that is carbolic and tonic all at once...
...rather than by whatever bits and pieces we could have picked up at the time." Many of his colleagues disagree sharply. Jim Snavely, a reporter for the Daily Record (circ. 36,001) and president of the Newspaper Guild local, is asking his membership for a resolution condemning the blackout. Daily Record Managing Editor Eli F. Sliver, one of those present when the judge made his extraordinary request, was especially contrite: "I am sorry I made the agreement. I was ashamed of myself the minute after I walked out of the judge's chambers." Record Publisher J.D. Scoggins blamed himself...
...town's two dailies, two papers in nearby Harrisburg that share a bureau in York, and seven radio and television stations in the area agreed to suppress all news of the trial until its conclusion. They also failed to report that they were participating in the highly unusual blackout. Reporters were present in the courtroom and took notes, but not a word about the case was printed or broadcast until the verdict...
...dangers is that a blackout, though it ostensibly protects defendants' rights, can suppress news about shoddy courtroom tactics. Agreeing to silence in one case can also encourage demands for noncoverage of other sensitive proceedings. Pennsylvania has a rule that empowers judges to order restrictions on news coverage of sensational trials. But Buckingham did not threaten to issue such an order, which itself could have been challenged in a higher court. One alternative-a change of venue for the second trial-was not requested. The judge did not even close the courtroom to the public; indeed, hundreds of spectators were...