Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political revolution has discovered the fax revolution. Overseas sympathizers of China's student movement last spring quickly learned that the official news blackout could be effectively penetrated through the use of facsimile machines. They used faxes to get foreign press reports into China...
...noon on Sept. 3, Chamberlain rose in the Commons -- newly outfitted with blackout curtains -- and announced that his years of effort to appease Hitler had ended in failure. "This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me," he said. "Everything that I have worked for, everything that I have believed in during my public life has crashed into ruins. There is only one thing left for me to do: that is to devote what strength and powers I have to forwarding the victory of the cause for which we have...
...director's fascination with cinema blossomed at Morehouse, where he was the third generation of Lees to attend the all-black college. During the summer of 1977, Lee made his first film: he drove around Brooklyn and Harlem the day after the New York City blackout and filmed the looting. Even then, Lee's cinematic eye was drawn to the absurdity of events that unfolded around him. "In a lot of ways it was funny to me, like Christmas," he says. "People were walking out of stores with color...
Lifting the Blackout: Images of North Korea--Brattle Theater...
SASC members attributed the decline to the media blackout in South Africa. "Three years ago was the height of the divestment movement and South Africa was on TV every night," said Randal S. Jeffrey '91. "Now it's not in the news every...