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Suddenly, a television crew enters the room, shines its lights and begins recording. Your exam is being broadcast live throughout metropolitan Boston. Until the test is over, you realize, your angst will be watched by whoever cares...
...address from a head of state. Small wonder: the company is so large (1990 revenues: nearly $127 billion) that if it were an independent nation, its economy would rank among the world's Top 20. By closed-circuit TV from GM headquarters in Detroit, this year's 45-minute broadcast reached 395,000 employees who stopped work and put down their tools in 130 factories across the U.S. But the message from chairman Robert Stempel was like no other in the 83-year history of the giant corporation...
ENTERTAINERS '91: THE TOP 20 OF THE YEAR (ABC, Dec. 26, 8 p.m. EST). Those old rivals, the broadcast networks and cable, seem to be getting pretty cozy. This year-end special, with host Dennis Miller, has been produced for ABC by E! Entertainment Television. If you can't beat...
Editors and broadcast executives were justified in feeling disconcerted. "I think we did the right thing ((to hide her identity))," said Tom Johnson, president of CNN. "But I do feel awkward about it now." Johnson and other news executives said her about-face will not change their attitude toward identifying rape victims. Explained an ABC News spokesperson: "Our policy is not to reveal the names of rape victims unless they choose. If at any time during the process they choose to go public, then we would name them." One news organization that may feel vindicated: NBC, the only TV network...
...cold day in hell when Terry Anderson won his freedom at last. The snow fell hard in Mount Lebanon as he spent the last 24 hours pacing in his cell, playing solitaire by candlelight and listening to the BBC broadcast stories of his progress on the road to Damascus. Those last hours passed with infernal slowness; his captors continued to argue over whether to let him go at all. But when at last the path to freedom cleared, he appeared to a world captured in a camera lens, and all was finally well...