Word: contacted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full force. FBI deputy director William Esposito told TIME, "I'd equate this manhunt to what we were doing in the late stages of the search for the Unabomber." Agents are seeking out every known friend or associate of Cunanan's, on the assumption he will try to contact one of them in an effort to get shelter and money. "There's a high likelihood he'll strike again," warns Bill Hagmaier, chief of the FBI's child-abuse and serial-killer unit. Meanwhile, after a private service in Miami on Wednesday attended by Versace's brother and sister...
...Becker may be most informative on stalking, the quintessential crime for an alienated age. A million women and 400,000 men were stalked in America in 1996. De Becker advises stalkees to administer one brush-off and engage in no subsequent contact. Discouragement by a male friend, he reports, usually backfires. Don't change phone numbers--the stalker "always" finds the new one--but invest in a second line, arming the first with an answering machine. "The stalker won't realize you've changed, and you'll have a record of his calls if you need...
...cast a herd of Washington newsies in that political satire, including NPR's Nina Totenberg, journalist-historian Richard Reeves and the McLaughlin Group. And TV buffs will remember Walter Cronkite's walk-on at the end of a Mary Tyler Moore Show episode more than two decades ago. With Contact, however, the journalistic community's sensitivity to the blurring of the lines between news and entertainment has caused some sober second thoughts. CNN president Tom Johnson said last week that in the future such appearances will probably be banned, bringing the cable network in line with the longtime policies...
...understand such sensitivity, especially since the studio that's distributing Contact is part of the same conglomerate that owns CNN (and TIME). As a stuffy journalist, I can only hope that the discontent with the "blurring" of news and entertainment might also take root in the world of prime-time news programming, in which dramatic music, hyped-up promos and film-noir lighting techniques are multiplying like hostile extraterrestrials...
...hear about the real-life journalists who played themselves in that movie about mankind's first encounter with extraterrestrials? No, I don't mean the gaggle of CNN anchors and correspondents who appear in Contact. I mean the three prominent newsmen who were featured in The Day the Earth Stood Still, the 1951 classic. In that film's opening moments, the descent of the flying saucer to Earth is breathlessly reported by NBC's H.V. Kaltenborn, radio commentator Elmer Davis and muckraker Drew Pearson. Then as now, the producers believed the presence of journalists would lend an air of authenticity...