Word: grabbers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lesser lights, mostly from radio and TV, with seemingly boundless enthusiasms. Susan Granger, who reviews for Connecticut's WICC radio and is now syndicated on about 100 stations, has lured moviegoers with passionate quotes for everything from Consenting Adults ("spine-tingling, disturbing, sexy, seductive!") to Forever Young ("a heart grabber that lifts the spirit"). Joanna Langfield, whose radio feature The Movie Minute is carried on 75 stations, is not far behind her in fervor and omnipresence...
...Train, The Virginian), while the Arts & Entertainment Network, originally conceived as a haven for fine-arts programming, now runs oldies , like The Avengers and Mrs. Columbo. Ted Turner's cable operation may attract a lot of attention with MGM movie blockbusters and environmental specials, but its most dependable ratings grabber is that unglamorous, uncolorized war- horse, The Andy Griffith Show...
...news at the moment is NewTek's Video Toaster, a $1,595 plug-in board that attaches to Commodore's video-friendly Amiga computer. It gives operators a "frame grabber" to freeze images for computer manipulation, an animation program to create flying 3-D titles and a long menu of digital effects like the Star Trekkian "transporter" that can dematerialize people from the screen...
...Gospel text for the day was familiar enough: Matthew 4, depicting the devil's threefold temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. But the Sunday sermon, delivered last week by New York's John Cardinal O'Connor, quickly became a headline grabber. To illustrate the reality of evil and give the biblical theme a contemporary twist, O'Connor recited what he termed "gruesomely realistic" portions of The Exorcist, the 1971 novel (and later film) that drew upon accounts of hundreds of exorcisms. Moreover, after Mass the Cardinal revealed to reporters that priests had been authorized to perform two exorcisms...