Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, Taylor and his wife Theodora moved from Harlem to a five-room cooperative apartment in predominantly white Riverdale. There Taylor likes to relax by sampling the 5,000 LPs and tapes that line one wall (with considerably more pleasure than when he was a deejay looking for broadcast material) and watching reruns of westerns on TV. The Taylors' friends include more doctors, judges and art directors than musicians. Evenings out usually mean a French restaurant and a play or concert-or one of Taylor's innumerable board meetings...
...Hendrix and Joplin legends satisfy precisely this fascination, and a whole school of films has capitalized upon this by exploiting rock's ability to suspend and heighten experience. Monterey Pop, Woodstock and Gimme Shelter use the camera to merely broadcast and reproduce the excitement generated by the music and the performers themselves. Rock and film sometimes mesh as neatly as bass and lead guitar. Gimme Shelter is at its best when the colored lights play over Jagger's body, and the Stones possess the stage. Offstage, without the protection of its excellent music, it grows tiresome...
...most inflammatory of the propaganda programs are those by the Palestinian guerrilla movement. After the Israeli commando raid on Beirut in April, a Voice of Palestine broadcast from Algiers called on Arabs to "kill everyone who is American because all of them work for American intelligence...
When the plan came under attack in the primary's first television debate, McGovern showed he was not prepared to defend it. In the May 28 debate, which was broadcast on CBS's "Face the Nation," Humphrey gave the impression that he knew far more about the proposal than McGovern did himself...
...spread through San José, the President went on the defensive. Don Pepe insisted that his relationship with Vesco had been strictly business. As long as the American breaks no Costa Rican law, Figueres sees no reason not to deal with him. He also explained, on a national-television broadcast, that the money deposited in his New York bank account was for such projects as support for the Costa Rican National Symphony Orchestra and a bank that helps artisans and small industries...