Word: expertly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually...
...half-hour break arrives on schedule, but Anderson does not. "Come on," mutters Furnad, "it's gotta happen before 4 o'clock." On the air, reporter Charles Jaco is killing time by talking to a legal expert. Finally Anderson / appears. Furnad shifts into overdrive: a switch back to Atlanta anchor Lou Waters; a shot of Anderson arriving; a split screen showing Anderson's Associated Press colleagues in New York City; a phone interview with John Anderson, Terry's brother...
Johnson is a relative newcomer to television, a fact regarded as a handicap by some, a strength by others. He admits he is still learning the medium. "I'm not going to try to become an expert in TV technology," he says. "I want to surround myself with people who are better than I am in the various disciplines. My job is to lead...
...year's flash points, then, were all the more blinding. Surely Patricia Bowman, the accuser in the Palm Beach rape case, never expected that she would watch a forensics expert peer through her black panty hose at more than 3 million viewers nationwide. The producers of Thelma & Louise could not have imagined that their cockeyed vision of two women on an ill-fated spree would set off a national debate about misogyny, male bashing and the power of feminine anger ungirdled. And certainly neither Clarence Thomas nor Anita Hill could have guessed that their private friction a decade ago would...
This book is only one chapter in the long, complex Johnson political odyssey. But it is a crucial one. Califano makes no pretense at being inside or expert on Vietnam. Yet he does see and report the malignancy of war and how - the bewildered Johnson raced that curse to the very end, finally losing, but not before he had at least given the nation a glimpse of a Great Society...