Word: cold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Local newscasts devote more time to explaining a cold front in Canada than they do a war front in Viet Nam for the simple reason that a five-minute weather report wrapped around a commercial makes an attractive-and non-controversial-package for sponsors. Thus forecasts are padded with history ("108 years ago today the high was 67" ) and a flurry of arrows and isobars, maybes and howevers that enlighten no one but do serve as a hedge against any variation on the prediction short of a typhoon in Main Street...
WNBC's Dr. Frank Field, the Manhattan fellow whom Johnny Carson accuses of using a Hansel and Gretel clock to make his predictions, is actually a doctor of optometry. And appropriately so, for where others see a high-pressure area, Field sees "cold air coming off the Great Lakes like a locomotive without brakes...
...save for impending hurricanes, droughts and floods, most viewers are concerned only with basic questions: Hot or cold? Rain or shine? As one hip pie informed a Los Angeles meteorologist: "Hey, man. Weather ain't good or bad. Weather just...
...Department of Agriculture, is not optimistic. "I can't see much hope of stopping them from coming north," he says. "The chances are that they'll reach Panama in a few years, and then come on to the U.S." McGregor believes that the long, cold winters of the U.S. snow belt would prove fatal to the Africans but that they will probably survive and thrive in California and most of the Southeast. Nonetheless, McGregor remains philosophical. The Africans are mean, and "they do sting like hornets, " he says. "But after all, we've learned to live with...
...dark brown range. In a fascinating selection of material, Kubrick omits the actual act of Poole's murder, cutting to his body in space directly after the mechanical pod-hands sever his air hose, thus taking emphasis off any identification we might suddenly feel and turning the murder into cold, further dehumanized abstraction...