Word: blinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...However, CBS executives plainly do not. They plan a future broadcast on the alleged Viet Nam "deception."Explained Sauter in announcing his moves: "The greatest asset of CBS News is its credibility. Protecting that credibility is the most important thing we do." Last week the CBS eye seemed to blink in embarrassment...
...readers could amass complete sets of their favorite authors by mixing older editions with paperbacks. That is no longer as cheap or as easy as it once was. Bookstores have ever less shelf space to give to slow-moving titles; warehousing such items has become prohibitively expensive. Paperbacks blink in and out of print like fireflies. They also, as older collectors have ruefully discovered, fade and fall apart even more rapidly than their owners...
...triumph of Hill Street Blues has been to make the passive viewer pay attention-to the interwoven plots, the overlapping dialogue, the busy background of bodies and emotion. Police Squad!, a deftly dippy sitcom now midway through a six-week run, demands the same attention. Blink and you will miss the Tower of Pisa looming outside a window in "a neighborhood called Little Italy." Glance at the evening paper and you will not see a young couple walk through a "Japanese garden" filled with blank-faced nisei standing in planters. Raid the fridge and you will miss the visit Sergeant...
Image: in the dismal sink, Skinny, shivering, I blink...
...Quix, the most artistic, to abuse an adjective, of video games conceals a destructive end. The player filling in the screen with colored boxes must ultimately succumb to the loneliness of electronic immolation. Video games create artless heroism. The heroes born with the plink of a quarter and the blink of a screen seek an inhuman, mechanical perfection that frustrates their humanity instead of fulfilling it. No enduring legend of the Round Table here; the top ten scores are erased each week. No Walter Mitty could emerge from this stultifying fantasy world. As Stendhal said, "One can acquire everything...