Word: hash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convention campaign had tested several techniques of television political coverage. One of the most widely used is the panel discussion, which tends, unless rehearsed, to be a hash of unrelated statements. When it is rehearsed, it tends to be a cliche contest. The giant "press conference" is another waste of time in most cases, although occasionally (e.g., Ike's first press conference at Abilene) it comes to life. One of the most successful TV techniques is the small press conference, with one public man and eight or ten really well-trained reporters...
...teetotaling Congressman Edwin Arthur Hall, he let fly again: "One of the most cowardly attacks in history . . . Perhaps ... [I] hit some guilty consciences and they yelled to high heaven. I was crucified on the House floor . . ." But the House, apparently confident that it had settled the miscreant's hash with one massive swat, did not seem to hear...
...Freshman Debating Society will hash out the first half of its annual Yale-Princeton triangular debate at 8 p.m. tonight in the Union...
...turn out a 30-minute show on a 5½-day schedule. He cuts financial corners by using only one camera and never reshooting a scene, and he tries to write his sparse dialogue so that a sequence can be ended at almost any point without making a hash of the plot...
...chief trouble was the setting-admittedly difficult inasmuch as Wozzeck has 15 swiftly changing scenes. Designer Mstislav Dubojinksy's stage was a stylistic hash laid out on two levels, with more exits, real and imaginary, than the auditorium of City Center itself. Among other things, the lighting was not subtle enough to disguise the unlikely fact that the pond in which Wozzeck drowns is atop both the room where his girl Marie lives and the room where the sadistic Doctor experimented...