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According to a recent Los Angeles Times article, the golden age of radio died in the spring of 1949 when Wayne Coy, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, acknowledged the superiority of television. Radio sales had plummeted and periodicals issued story after story describing the plight of the beleaguered radio industry. Film and television had co-opted radio technology to move past the silent film era and into a new age of sync-sound entertainment. Why listen to Orson Welles narrate an alien invasion when you can watch Tom Cruise stop one?Instead of continuing to use the live...
...Mexico. ''I want to be Jewish. I don't have to apologize. It is my very essence.'' He is an affectionate and demonstrative father, and small children tend to sprawl on his knees and interrupt him with coy, lolling, attention-seeking questions. He pauses during his interview every time to answer the child first. Palestinians? ''There is no Palestine.'' Jews called it Palestine before 1948. The Arabs who call themselves Palestinians are transients. West Bank? ''There is no West Bank in real geography. It is really the west bank of the Dead Sea.'' Dayan does not ''want to offer Arabs...
...lack of interest in the job. He wrote in an e-mail that he is not a candidate “in my own eyes or, I trust, in the eyes of the search committee” and that he was “not just being coy.” [See story here...
...Mamedov had a coy reply to questions about Hampel's fate should he return to Russia. "It's a purely hypothetical question," he said. "I can ask you, if he turns out to be a drug pusher, will you take him back...
...very popular). Even the show’s one steady relationship—between a careerist intern and a famous cardiothoracic surgeon—has been reduced to a striptease here and a few lies there.Such a television show is no longer a legitimate drama; it’s coy pornography. The show’s affliction runs deep in its third season, in which its characters’ relationships are bought with sexual currency.Such sexual leverage facilitates relationships in “Seinfeld” as well—when Jerry presses George to explain why he stopped seeing...