Word: clips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bloopers #5 (NBC), rated ninth in the same week, was a virtual clone of Life's Most Embarrassing Moments, but with a salacious twist. The word censored in the title was intended to turn viewers into video voyeurs. The host, Dick Clark, slick and eternally adolescent, sniggered as clips were shown of an elephant's trunk probing a zoo warden's crotch and an overly affectionate orangutan tweaking a newswoman's breast.. On a clip from Hollywood Squares, the late Paul Lynde replied to a question about what can make a monkey cry: "Learning that...
...next battleground in the soft-drink industry is likely to be over the sweeteners used in diet drinks. Low-calorie sodas, which make up some 20% of the carbonated-beverage market, have been growing at a 10% to 15% annual clip. That delights firms because diet drinks are the most profitable ones they make. Reason: saccharin, used in most diet soft drinks, costs one-tenth as much as sugar. But there is some concern that saccharin in extremely large doses may cause cancer; besides, the sweetener leaves an aftertaste. Firms have been experimenting with other artificial sweeteners. One of them...
...heavyweight race Harvard maintained a steady 35 strokes-per-minute clip, beating the Huskies by five seconds. "The main factor in the race was definitely the conditions" Captain Campbell Roger said yesterday. With our lead after the first 100 meters we just tried to row smoothly--we were battling the conditions more than we were Northeastern...
...Osius a clever conceit: he presents his play in the context of a Holly wood-style epic. At the end of the play, the audience sees credits on the screen rather than a row of bowing actors. It is unfortunate, however, when a device--in this case, a film clip of battle scenes from Olivier's "Henry V"--elicits more of a response from the audience than the play itself...
...lottery was part of a fund-raising drive that included clip-out contribution coupons and special promotional appeals designed in the words of fund raising brochures to "put a little fun into the serious business of fundraising...