Word: blurring
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Stormy resignations in Atlanta and Boston raise concerns that the traditional division between a newspaper' s business and editorial departments is beginning to blur...
...banished from the newsroom, establishing a firm division that was often compared to the constitutional separation of church and state. These days, however, with economic and cultural changes wrenching the newspaper industry, many journalists are concerned that the once sacred boundary between business and editorial departments has begun to blur. "Editors are facing a harder task maintaining their virginity," says former Boston Globe editor Thomas Winship. David Burgin, editor of the Houston Post and veteran of five other dailies, is more blunt: "The whole notion of autonomy in the newsroom is extinct. Today, if you had Watergate, you would have...
...landscaped garden restaurants with pavilions strung with lights and lotus ponds at their center. Dinner at such a palace will cost perhaps $8 a person. As for postprandial appetites, they are taken care of in a night world as treacherously bewitching as any on earth -- one winking neon blur of bars and discos and imperial, four-story massage parlors...
There is a beauty to seeing something once, in a flash, in a blur, scarcely understood. Not the small print of the moment: just the block capitals -- a hand raised in victory, a body, perfectly straightened, entering the water. Lightning strikes just once, after all; it is the nature of an epiphany that it cannot be repeated...
...rested on the green infield, ready to shield athletes from the autumn sun. White doves left over from the opening ceremony strutted on the grass while athletes stretched languidly. Then a Korean in white blazer and gloves climbed up a ladder and fired a pistol. The points began to blur: legs pumped, iron heaved skyward, bodies shot forward...