Word: extents
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...networks get themselves into such a mess? To a great extent, they are victims of a changing TV universe. "The networks are not doing anything wrong," says Ted Turner, the veteran network basher who tried to take over CBS three years ago. "It's like AM radio. They weren't doing anything wrong either, but FM radio was better." Years of colossal audiences and soaring ad revenues, however, bred complacency. "The networks closed their eyes to reality," says Ralph Baruch, former president of Viacom International and now a senior fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies. "They didn...
BOGOSIAN is a master at choosing a few physical quirks which quickly sketch a whole range of characteristics. His best moments explore the extent of male folly. His characters are often driven by lust, a drive that they often do not understand or which threatens to overwhelm them. A bombastic portrait of a Married to the Mob type who has just eaten a huge meal is particularly on target. As he advises his nephew Vincent to fall in love, he reminisces about his own youth, when he was a "human hard-on" and "a dick with clothes...
Gleason says that it was not until he began to work with the Core and the QRR, in fact, that he realized the extent to which many students loathe and even fear working with numbers...
This still leaves plenty to argue about. To what extent is Government spending -- on highways, on science research, on education, on health -- a form of investment rather than present consumption? (Answer: a lot, but less than in the past and not enough to excuse the present deficit.) Apart from deficit reduction, do we need new policies to encourage savings and investment in the private sector? (Answer: perhaps, but be suspicious of both conservative schemes that amount to new tax breaks for rich folks and liberal schemes that amount to Government officials trying to play business better than businessmen.) Are trade...
...some extent, such frustrations are inevitable: gymnastics buffs want to see every routine, swimming mavens every heat. Yet not even 179 1/2 hours of coverage is enough to display more than about a tenth of all the action. But NBC's sense of proportion has been peculiarly maddening. It broke into live coverage of Janet Evans' gold-medal swim in the 400-meter individual medley to air a banal taped interview with her. Night after night, viewers saw just enough volleyball or water polo to frustrate them as they waited for something else, yet not enough context or start...