Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cases, restraint involved outright self-censorship. When two black teachers at South Boston High were beaten and their cars were smashed, the incident was ignored at WGBH-TV, the local public broadcast outlet, because station managers considered it to be inflammatory. Editors at WCVB-TV deleted from a film clip a shot of a white student making rude gestures in the presence of black children. A story about the arrival of a Ku Klux Klan officer in Boston that appeared in an early edition of the Evening Globe last Thursday was missing in later editions...
...Inventory Recession." Economists long looked forward to at least some slow real growth in production of goods and services late this year. Now they doubt it, primarily because business inventories have been piling up at an unhealthy clip. A rise of $10 billion in inventories for a full year is considered large, but newly revised figures show that in the last quarter of 1973 goods accumulated on shelves and in warehouses at an annual rate of almost $29 billion. In the first half of this year, the rate was close to $16 billion. Businessmen have developed a shortage-and-inflation...
...faculty members content. Like the people in Mass Hall, he spends a lot of his time worrying about how to cut down on the soaring costs of running a college education. Rosovsky and his predecessor, John T. Dunlop, have been steadily raising tuition fees at a $200-a-year clip, and there's no apparent end in sight to the increases...
Never mind that it often seems a parody of Zane Grey. MacLean's tale gleefully highballs along at a brisk, cinematic clip. Funny touches are provided by the English understatements of MacLean's Pinkerton-man hero. He is the sort of chap who, on examining an arrow embedded in the heroine's shoulder, might mutter, "Mmmm, Apache, I shouldn't wonder...
...work, along with Macbeth, is one of the two most swiftly moving in the whole canon; Shakespeare compressed the nine months of the original source into a mere five days. Kahn has generally kept things going at a good clip. The show has a playing time of exactly three hours. Kahn has cut less from the text than what we find in many productions. He includes the Chorus' opening prologue (with the final death-scene mimed behind), as well as the prologue...