Word: flips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regrets that nowadays "what television does uniquely, the transmission of experience-what was it like?-is a rare and accidental accomplishment. Television has become something to listen to from the next room. So has television news." Frank scorns "split screens and zooms and star bursts and insets and flip-overs" to give pedestrian words a visual interest, or the trite use of canned "truck shots down the aisles of supermarkets, wheat pouring into a boxcar, a slow zoom into the Capitol dome." He sighs for a past day when the camera was not so much the servant of the word...
...been highly publicized, including the arrests. Among them: Linda Blair, cherub-faced star of The Exorcist; Louise Lasser, the ill-fated Mary Hartman; Symphony Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, who plea-bargained down to a disorderly-conduct charge; Rolling Stone Guitarist Keith Richard, whose hard living is legend; Comedian Flip Wilson, who was taken into custody only hours before a scheduled meeting with Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. Not even the White House has been untouched. Dr. Peter Bourne, the Carter drug adviser who resigned after giving an aide a prescription for Quaaludes under a fictitious name, once stated that there...
...flip through the notes prepared for the 25th reunion of the Class of 1956 shows a group of men, almost all of them white, and from rather privileged backrounds...
Besides its regular news team, CNN brings in special contributors, ranging from Barry Goldwater and Phyllis Schlafly to Hamilton Jordan and Bella Abzug. Its burgeoning audience seems willing to bear with the rough edges, and positively seems to relish the down-home feeling of such featured staffers as Weatherman Flip Spiceland, House Veterinarian Herb Tanzer and Mike the auto mechanic. Best of all, claims Turner, the network should be profitable by year...
...doctrinal flip-flopping has only served to inflame contending sectors within the P.C.F. During the period of internal bickering, about 100,000 members dropped away. As always, the chief source of Communist strength is its dominance of the 2 million-member, Paris-based General Labor Confederation (C.G.T.), France's largest trade union organization, which has particular influence in such public-sector enterprises as railways and the electric companies...