Word: dan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play opens with Candor and Glamiss (Dan Buchanan) resolving to stage a rebellion against the Archduke Duncan (Danny Vanderryn). Whitney and Buchanan carry themselves with the kind of frantic nervousness of the classroom cut-up you'll remember from high school; they generate their fair share of laughs, but you can forget about the illusion of reality...
...Dan Dorion, senior, right wing, Western Michigan, 5-ft., 8-in., 169-lb., 40 games, 40-61--101, drafted by New Jersey...
...major news was the fall of President Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. But the route to Manila last week was a meandering one for viewers of the three network news shows. CBS Evening News Anchorman Dan Rather introduced the story from San Antonio and Sioux Falls, S. Dak., where he was doing a series of reports on America's farmers. Tom Brokaw launched the NBC Nightly News coverage on Tuesday from Washington, where the big story was the inquiry into the explosion of the space shuttle. And on ABC, coverage of the drama in the Philippines began in Moscow, where...
...difficulty. If satellite transmission stations are not available locally, they can be packed up and shipped in. Instant satellite hookups last week made possible such scenes as ABC Commentator George Will sparring with Soviet Journalist Vladimir Posner in Moscow, and President Corazon Aquino in the Philippines being interviewed by Dan Rather in the farm belt...
Many critics complain that putting anchors in the middle of the story is simply an exercise in promotion. Says Andrew Stern, who teaches broadcast journalism at the University of California, Berkeley: "There's nothing that Dan Rather or Tom Brokaw can add to the Manila story that the guys covering the Far East can't." Network executives disagree. "The purpose of sending an anchor is in large part to say this is an important story," says ABC's Wald. The anchors, too, claim their presence can enhance a story. "You've got three activist anchormen," says Brokaw. "We all come...