Word: grab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tabloid shows are the disreputable stepchildren of TV journalism. The Big Three -- A Current Affair, Hard Copy and Inside Edition -- are scorned by mainstream journalists, dismissed by most critics, laughed at by many viewers. Yet when sensational crimes and celebrity scandals grab the nation's attention, these are the shows that do the spadework, uncover the dirt, get the scoops. Their style may be cheesy and their tactics dicey (including liberal use of the checkbook), but they are doing a lot of old-fashioned, roll-up-your-sleeves journalism. What's more, at a time when the network- magazine shows...
Whatever their ethics or methods, the tabloid shows are clearly having a major impact. Parochial crime stories, once confined to the local paper's front page and the 11 o'clock news, now become national obsessions. There's still a major difference between the smash-and-grab tactics of the tabloids and the relatively sober treatment these stories usually get on the networks. But it's no longer possible to deny that the two genres increasingly mirror each other across their divide...
...most of the retail action has moved closer to the University. The Gap and Laura Ashley are just two of the retail outlets flourishing thanks to Yale. The Atticus Book Store, at 1082 Chapel Street (next door to Yale's British Art Museum) caters to bibliophiles of every sort. Grab a cappuchino in the recently added and immensely popular cafe inside the store...
...were then ordered to produce Harvard identification cards. I watched the police officer grab his gun as I slowly reached for my wallet. (I had learned to reach for my wallet slowly after having a .9 millimeter pistol placed at my temple during a "routine traffic stop" at age sixteen). After a close examination of our pictures and our faces, the cards were returned. We were then offered, not an apology, but an explanation. It turns out that a Black male had committed an armed robbery in Cambridge earlier that afternoon, and, naturally, we are suspects...
...League football is no logner. In a battle of undefeated teams Saturday, Pennsylvania defeated Princeton, 30-14, to grab the inside track to the Ancient Eight crown...