Word: blotter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police blotter is filled to capacity these days, and not just on Murder, She Wrote and Miami Vice. A fresh burst of nonfiction programming -- news shows, pseudo news shows and other "reality" fare -- has rediscovered those old reliables of tabloid journalism, sex and violent crime. America's Most Wanted, the highest-rated show on the Fox network, and Unsolved Mysteries, which joined NBC's schedule this month, solicit viewer help each week in tracking down fugitives. The syndicated magazine show A Current Affair, drawing good ratings on 125 stations, goes for the gut each night with stories on crime...
...Leningrad channel broadcasts the provocative cultural digest Fifth Wheel, focusing on "superfluous people" in the arts and letters, as well as the offbeat 600 Seconds news show, in which commentator Alexander Nevzorov races against a flashing digital clock to summarize the day's events, from cultural calendar to police blotter. Journalist Ott from Estonian TV has been so successful with one-on-one celebrity interviews that his regional program Television Acquaintance has been imported to national television...
...amid screeching spew of dead dry earth--our yacht is afloat once more, roaring toward the casinos over the horizon, beckoning invisibly but offering no hope or suggestion as to what a trio of young men ought to do when, the roaring onset of hydropowered blotter acid moments away, the conservative governor of California hitches a ride: "Say fellas. Where are you headed?"--but there is a roaring in my ears and I think he is calling us "heads" and so pinned down and in duress I call for reinforcements, my lawyer, my Harvard Law School Professor from the back...
...more than 2,000 West Germans for their reaction to Rust's flight, 79% said they were "tickled" by the exploit. West German officials were considerably more somber. At week's end, said an aide to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the government had not received "so much as a police blotter" report from the Soviet Union about the incident. Officials were worried not only about the fate of Rust but also about the impact of his stunt on Soviet-West German relations. One senior Bonn diplomat called the timing of Rust's flight particularly unfortunate "against the background of the present...
Klein came to photography by way of painting, having studied briefly with Fernand Leger. Once he turned to the camera, the former sociology major from New York's City College showed a deep instinct for the urban demotic, with its links to the police blotter, the tabloid and the B movie. With money earned by doing Vogue fashion spreads in France, he made a picture-taking trip to New York in 1954, equipped with both the expatriate's eye for its psychic stresses and the native's complicity in them. Without resorting to the bizarre, he got the profoundly unsettled...