Word: blackout
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sure Paul doesn't meet at Le Cirque confronts this modern success story by questioning the meaning of his life if there is nothing he is willing to die for. Does Paul put up at least an inarticulate defense for the lightness of his being? No time; a blackout and scene change take priority...
...lifted at week's end, but officials made it clear that reporters could be banned again should events warrant it. Intensifying the effects of the blackout, the army closed for six months the Palestine Press Service, a Jerusalem-based network of Arab journalists. Foreign reporters thus lost a dependable supplement from inside the territories to the sparse information in army press releases...
...Soviet press issued several sketchy reports on the disturbances and the demands of the Armenians, which were, after all, not directed against Soviet rule. But the limits of glasnost were soon reached. Authorities banned foreign journalists from the area and imposed a virtual news blackout. Telephone conversations with local residents, however, provided some details about the unrest...
...Howard Rosenberg, a producer from CBS's Washington bureau, played Bush. "We knew it was going to be a brawl," says Cohen. "We prepared with that expectation." In the last of the three rehearsals, Rather was warned that Bush might bring up what Rather calls "the Miami thing," the blackout last September when a bristling Rather stomped off the Evening News set to protest CBS's decision to allow the U.S. Open tennis match to cut into the broadcast...
...brief period, Quadlings used the Shuttle Bus to head for brighter surroundings. One bus left packed with a Square-bound exodus. But most waited out the blackout...