Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Should CBS approve the project, O'Brien hopes it will air as early as next February. But if the "60 Minutes" parody doesn't appeal to network brass, the Lampoon staff has other projects on the burner. If the projects dies "we might start an arts and crafts project...or a salute to Billy Barty--a very short actor who plays midgets." the club's president said...
...Critic Hodding Carter opened an inquiry on public television into the subject by describing Wallace as a central witness who "was not available to our cameras." Meaning that Wallace dishes it out, but can't take it? That set off another miniround of acrimony. Wallace concedes that CBS brass for a long time had shielded him and his colleagues from the press until there was what Wallace calls a "free the slaves" movement at CBS. That gave Wallace a chance to speak for himself, and he was ready to. By that time, because either Carter was away on assignment...
...much space to describe the place and circumstances where he discovered a fish sauce. Was there nothing new in Hodding Carter's critique? It added as much, or as little, to public knowledge as had the original Westmoreland broadcast. CBS's charge that the Saigon top brass had misled L.B.J. about enemy troop strength relied largely on evidence from a former CIA analyst, Samuel Adams to whom CBS paid $25,000. But Adams had previously made his case elsewhere and often: in congressional testimony, in court, in a Harper's article. To this old story CBS added...
Howard Baker, the other Republican worthy, is also determined to hang around and reach for the brass ring. He is a year younger than Bush. But by 1988, he too will be on the threshold of those golden years when a man might prefer shuffleboard to hand-to-hand combat with Democrats and overnight flights to distant capitals...
...symbolic lesson in obedience to the new clan. Eleni scarcely thought of leaving her rigid culture until it began to shatter violently around her. She dreamed of joining her husband in America, but she did not try to learn his Western ways. Though he had bought her a big brass bed, she slept on rugs on the floor except when he was home. When he sent her a feather duster, she put it in a vase and displayed it in the best of her house's four rooms...