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...back to the clinic, where she asked to be scheduled for surgery. Then, as the camera rolled, correspondent Ross suddenly interrupted Caine's presurgery meeting, badgering the stunned doctor that he was about to subject a healthy patient to "unnecessary surgery." Caine was "only a few tests and a half-hour away from the operating table," said Ross in a voice-over. For Dateline producers, this was just the sort of hard- hitting video journalism that would put them in the same league as CBS's reigning 60 Minutes. For officials at Southeastern Eye Center, it was grounds for legal...
...voice is untrained and shaky. And yet the tape, recorded in 1971 for a documentary film, has an undeniable dignity that Bryars found irresistible. Starting with a simple piano accompaniment, the composer gradually expanded the orchestration in a series of live performances, which culminated in 1975 in a half-hour recording on art-rocker Brian Eno's Obscure Records label...
Saying he did not intend to offer his resignation, FBI Director William Sessions nevertheless cut short a Chicago trip to meet with his boss, Attorney General Janet Reno. Neither would comment after the half-hour conference on Saturday; as Sessions left, he tripped over a curb and broke two bones in his elbow. A day earlier, President Clinton met with Sessions' possible successor: Judge Louis Freeh of New York...
...news is the P.T. Barnum, the Coney island the dancing lady and the diving horse, step night up, ladies and gents, it's live, it's true, it's too disgusting to believe. The viewer can release his or her passions, desires in the comfort and safety of a half-hour, non-interactive, for your-pleasure-only freak show...
Powell, in turn, confronted the protesters' concerns head-on. Near the end of a half-hour address that focused on the importance of maintaining America's pre-eminence as the world's only military superpower, the general spoke of his readiness to compromise on the issue...