Word: familiarizes
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...sure, there are marvelous moments, lots of them. Executive Producer Jack Sameth and Writer/Co-Producer Michael Winship have done an impressive job of excavation. Along with the familiar highlights are dozens of more obscure nuggets: the antiquated newscasts of John Cameron Swayze and Douglas Edwards, when stories were illustrated with childlike drawings or photos held up to the camera by the anchorman; Ronald Reagan doing a Mortimer Snerd impression as the mystery guest on What's My Line?, Vladimir Zworykin, one of TV's technological pioneers, being interviewed by former Radio Announcer Ben Grauer in a 1948 oddity called The Story...
...involved. There is much fascinating footage of John F. Kennedy's and Richard Nixon's TV appearances, illustrating once again how friendly the medium was to one, cruel to the other. Nixon's "Checkers" speech, one of his rare TV triumphs, is included, of course -- but not just the familiar passage about Pat's "Republican cloth coat"; also Nixon's closing words, when he leans stiffly into the camera and intones, "Remember folks, Eisenhower is a great man . . ." just as time runs...
Ironically, the decision may help create the conditions for a feistier kind of student journalism. The court did not give schools the power to suppress independently produced student publications. The underground newspaper, a familiar sight in many schools 20 years ago, may be ripe for a comeback...
Even so, there will be few of the familiar trappings of democracy: no polling booths, no official ballots issued by the state and, for the Democrats, not even a shred of secrecy about each participant's vote. Confusion, even chaos, is likely. In years past, there have never been fully accurate tallies of exactly who the Iowa caucus attendees supported. But like compulsive gamblers playing with a 47-card deck, the press and conventional wisdom makers will somehow manage to anoint winners, belittle losers and quickly rejigger the odds for the Feb. 16 New Hampshire primary and beyond...
There it was again -- the harrowing, sinking feeling that has become all too familiar on Wall Street. Pessimism verging on panic. Stock prices plunging in a free fall. Last Friday the Dow Jones industrial average suffered its third largest drop in history, plummeting 140.58 points to close at 1911.31. Fortunately, the worst of the rout began after 2:30 p.m., and there was not enough time for a full-fledged disaster before the New York Stock Exchange's 4 p.m. closing bell. By the end of the day, however, traders could not help but think back to the 108.36-point...