Word: glorious
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...network gruel, the weird piece of machinery across the way is pulling down programs from at least three pay-TV companies. Plus "feeds" from network correspondents hours before the evening news gets on the air. Plus NASA transmissions of pictures from Saturn. Plus soccer from Brazil. Plus the glorious miscellany of perhaps 50 to 60 programs a day, from closed-circuit prizefights to S.R.O. symphony concerts that are beamed off whichever satellite is being tuned...
...made for television and television knew it. Said Steve Friedman, executive producer of NBC's Today show: "We have a beautiful princess, a royal wedding, a glorious sight, all overlaid with the threat of violence." To capture this perfect script, TV journalists plotted their coverage for months, haggling over camera position, importing tons of equipment, steeping correspondents in royal arcana...
...newlyweds will not be piped aboard the royal yacht Britannia - that mark of naval respect is normally accorded only to the Queen. But during the course of the two-week Mediterranean honeymoon cruise, Prince Charles and Lady Diana will be coddled and comforted by every other amenity that the glorious ship has to offer. A seagoing resort, the Britannia is outfitted with swimming pool, ballroom, chapel, theater, and a dining room that seats 40. There is a crack crew of 254 Royal Navy sailors (two-thirds of whom sign on for their entire service careers) and 22 officers, including...
...Europe, there might be more revolutions, more bloodshed, but most of the Continent, he promised John Adams, would wind up as American-style democracies, upon whose "glorious achieve ments" the two old Presidents would look down from heaven...
...four decades, but it is unlikely that a conclave of talent like the old one will again be assembled. Certainly it is regrettable that a bitter labor dispute in 1941 and the necessities of war work brought an end to the questing spirit of the Disney Studio in its glorious morning. But under the shrewd eye of its founder, it defined the possibilities of a unique art form-and, in the process, created some of the cinema's best moments. -By Richard Schickel