Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...success of telephone numbers with the prefix 976, which allow callers to hear short, taped programs containing information and entertainment such as sports highlights and children's stories, has spawned a burgeoning new industry. Dozens of entrepreneurs across the U.S. are forming businesses to produce and supply telephone companies with a seemingly limitless variety of tapes, from Dial-a-Mystery to Gay News. San Francisco's Megaphone, for example, produces daily 60-sec. updates on ten popular TV soap operas, plus a Michael Jackson tape for fans who want frequent bulletins on what their idol is doing...
...Office. He is privy to the problems Reagan has with his children. At the end of a hard day last year, the President received a dressing down on the telephone from one of the children. Reagan put the phone down and said softly, "I didn't need to hear that right now." Deaver winced for his friend...
...next month.) Jessica Lange, who stars as Maggie the Cat, leaps into her syrupy, Scarlett O'Hara cadences like an eight-year-old sloshing around in a mud puddle: "One of the no-neck mahn-stuhs messed up mah luv-ly lace dress." O.K., folks, one can almost hear her say, just watch...
...arrogance of television is its assumption that its own maunderings are more interesting than what is being said on the platform -that you would rather hear Rather speak smugly, as he did in San Francisco, of the "pitter-patter of platitudes" than hear the hoarse Irish oratory of Speaker Tip O'Neill, which CBS did not carry. Networks cover tennis matches with more fidelity to the action...
...foraging forlornly for nonnews. At the convention's transcending moments, the big speeches, television is at its best. In San Francisco, these speeches were endlessly ballyhooed in advance in the irritating way television plugs prizefights or sitcoms to come. But if this iteration helped swell the crowd to hear the oratory of Governor Cuomo, Jesse Jackson or Fritz Mondale, much can be forgiven. These fine speeches reminded us that a skilled orator, adjusting intuitively to the crowd's response, employs a different and more demanding art than the numbing nattering of commentators. Television talk has been memorably defined...