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Yomiuri was the first major Japanese paper to run a full list of radio programs and later formed Japan's first commercial TV network. Shoriki's most enduring brainchild was baseball, which he helped popularize. Says one Yomiuri official: "Each time the Giants win, our readers yell 'Banzai!' while watching them over our NTV, and again when reading about them in our paper...
...specific bipartisan bow was the appointment of a special envoy to seek a peaceful solution in Central America. This was the brainchild of Maryland Congressman Clarence Long, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that handles foreign aid. Long and his colleagues, however, were disappointed by Reagan's choice of former Democratic Senator Richard Stone of Florida (see box). They feel Stone is too aligned with the current Administration, for which he has undertaken several diplomatic missions in Central America, and with the deposed right-wing dictatorship of Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia in Guatemala, for which he served as a paid lobbyist...
...coalition is the brainchild of Lisa St. John, President of the School of Public Health Student Coordinating Committee. St. John invited representatives of the individual student governments to the first meeting and has since then acted as the group's chairman...
...from Snowy River," a recently released Australian film based on the epic poetry of A. B. Paterson, fails because it attempts too much. The brainchild of producer Geoff Burrowes, the film tries to weave together a tender love story between two strong-willed youngsters separated by their differing social milieus ("Love Story"); a paean to the majesty and beauty of the wild mountain horse ("The Black Stallion"); and a moving tale of a young boy's physical and emotional passage to manhood ("Breaking Away"). The result is a collage of ill-connected scenes and cliched dialogue that waste an admittedly...
...liberally to reward one's most socially responsible product? But in recognizing itself as a morally sound group, do the pundits, and beautiful people of the Academy appoint themselves as society's dictators of true intellectual value? Does Richard Attenborough, who reportedly devoted more than a decade to his brainchild, thus become the father of morality for his conscientious use of the celluloid...