Word: feets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hazardous appetite for the dramatic, a way of demanding more and more, of propelling events with its own requirements for momentum. It can also, quite simply, falsify reality. Indeed it has frequently done so; film editors go for the fast and turbulent scene, even if everything is calm two feet out of camera range. Perhaps the Sadat trip was such effective the ater, because it was an event of enough inherent size and poignance to live up to TV's dramatic requirements without needing to be hoked...
...heart of Cataldo's Microlert is a tiny radio transmitter, about the size of a cigarette lighter, that is worn around the neck. When this battery-powered pendant is squeezed in an emergency, it sends out a signal that from as far away as 300 feet (92 meters) triggers into action a larger unit containing a tape cassette and player. Plugged into a telephone jack, the device automatically dials a series of preprogrammed numbers-an ambulance service, say, then a doctor's office-and sounds the appropriate taped message for each. Samples: "There is a medical emergency...
Milner was up to the first half-dozen or so rounds in the ensuing shooting gallery, but with seven seconds left on the power play, freshman Phil Evans garnered his first varsity tally of the season with a wrist shot from ten feet out that caromed off the far post for Harvard's sixth goal...
Harvard had to wait almost six minutes to tie the score. With Friar Dan Haskins off for tripping, the icemen's deliberate, checkerboard passing eventually found McDonald alone five feet in front of the net. The newcomer responded with his first goal of the year, with assists going to pointmen Jim Trainor and Bob Leckie...
...night-shirted woman and tossed into a dark room just off of the landing. The door is slammed in the face of the friendly mob of dogs, who have followed me faithfully up the stairs. The room, once lit, turns out to be extremely large, about 35 feet long, and painted a strange shade of pinkish orange. There are two enormous desk-size color TV sets as well as a couple of legitimate desks, a spherical environmental chair with an unexploded artillery shell inside, a long couch covered with flower prints and wall shelves filled with gun manuals and almanacs...