Word: clocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gildehaus kept up his futile manuevers, but once the clock had ticked down to three seconds, the partisan Crimson crowd began to hoot derisively as it became apparent that the midfielder would never even be able to release the ball in the face of Peyser's dogged one-on-one pressure...
...part, the press argues that the Iranian and Iraqi ban on foreign reporters precludes coverage of the war. A disturbing implication arises from this position: If you can't get neat, satellite-transmitted color videos ready for the seven o'clock news, it's not worth covering. Surely, censorship and restricted information flows cannot and must not deter correspondents from reporting the news. They may not be able to tell us the details of the conflict, but at least reporters can inform us of the gravity of the issue...
...Connecticut-based ESPN ranks among the cable channels most likely to succeed. The network offers round-the-clock sports, ranging from college basketball to Australian football. On weekday mornings, ESPN supplies two hours of financial news on its popular Business Times program. Despite an unanticipated loss of more than $80 million since its start five years ago, the channel is expected to break even by the first quarter of 1985. Last year advertising sales, the bulk of ESPN's revenue, jumped 60%, to $40 million...
...after the breakup of a vaudeville show he had been traveling with, put together a nine-piece combo. Discovered by Jazz Critic and Record Producer John Hammond shortly thereafter, the Basie band went to New York in 1936. The next year the release of the bouncy One O'clock Jump made the Count a celebrity...
Although Basie employed talented arrangers in later years, many of his early hits, including One O'clock Jump and Jumpin 'at the Woodside, began as improvised "head arrangements." "We were fooling around at the Reno Club, and Basie was playing along in F," recalled one of his men. "He hollered at me that he was going to switch to D-flat and for me to 'set something.' I started playing that opening reed riff on alto. Hot Lips Page jumped in with the trumpet part without any trouble, and Dan Minor thought up the trombone part...