Word: dan
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Harvard and B.C. slow danced to a 2-2 tie late in the third period. But with 62 seconds on the clock, B.C. Co-Captain Dan Shea cradled a puck that had bounced high off the boards and stuck a 40-ft. shot past goalie Michael Francis and into the Crimson...
Things were not going well for the Crimson. B.C. Co-Captain Dan Shea had scored his 18th goal of the season to put the Eagles ahead, 3-2, with 62 seconds left in the game. Harvard Coach Bill Cleary took the obvious next step--he decided to pull freshman goalie Michael Francis when the puck was safely...
...there before the mortal audience was the collision of George Bush and Dan Rather. The two hurled angry clumps of words, and their clumps broke and powdered against each other's gleaming indignation. Not a molecule of coherent information emerged from the encounter -- except the encounter itself. The medium is the message, in Marshall McLuhan's famous dictum. Bush afterward compared the exchange to combat, but if so, it was the combat of Saturday morning cartoons: Bang! -- Poof! Boom! -- Poof! Language disintegrated on impact. When Bush slugged Rather with the line about Rather's once walking...
...only to display events but also to analyze them. Ted Koppel's Nightline on ABC is intelligent and penetrating. The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour on public television has a clear, steady eye and the time to explore issues thoroughly, without the headlong rush against the clock that was, in part, Dan Rather's problem with George Bush. With Firing Line, William F. Buckley Jr. has done a pioneer's work in civilizing discussion on television. But the temptations of television -- spectacle, flash, the short attention span, the sensationalism of the irrational -- are hard to resist. At its worst, television journalism...
...contretemps featuring George Bush and CBS' s Dan Rather may help the Vice President bury his "wimp" image and strengthen his Iowa campaign. -- Rather' s high- strung and combative style make him television' s most controversial anchorman. -- In the kingdom of television, there are a thousand different styles, rituals, protocols. See NATION...