Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When SASC members returned to campus this year, they found that many of their leaders of exceptional charisma or moral vigor had graduated. They heard no news from South Africa because of the media blackout there and could see no shanties on other campuses nationwide...
...general has made it clear that he is girding for a prolonged battle. In anticipation of the general strike, which for two days closed 90% of all businesses in Panama City, the government imposed a news blackout. Troops seized the offices of the leading opposition newspaper, La Prensa, and shut down two other papers as well. On Friday, Noriega's backers staged a rally of 50,000, many of them government workers, in the capital...
...Orient, I'm not supposed to have an opinion. I try to respect the differences." Ozawa, 51, looks at his young colleague uneasily. "Can you do that?" he wonders, and then suddenly addresses an unseen camera. "This question is very serious," he says. "This is very private." Blackout...
...lighting, which effectively highlights the dramatic tension of this Strindbergian nightmare. Prascak takes into account not only the lighting's immediate effects on each scene but the resulting shadow play as well. Without such creative lighting, the dream-like quality of the play could have failed--20-second blackout sequences are no fun when you expect a seamless transition from one scene to the next...
...come by the most debilitating penalties ever assessed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. For alumni payments to their players, among other excesses, the Mustangs must hibernate in 1987. They may resume in 1988, but only for seven road games, and there is to be a two-year blackout of live TV. When all the lost revenue is totted up, it may amount to a $4 million fine...