Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mainly played by British. Says Berger: "We did not want any comedic overtones of Hollywood." Most of the cast members accepted their roles as soon as they saw the script. One of the two actors who turned down parts felt that the show overly humanized the Nazis. "When I heard that," says Green, "I didn't sleep for three days...
...focus does not quite work the other way. Most Americans may never have heard of Steinberg, but the influence of that clear, epigrammatic line and dry wit has been felt throughout American design and illustration for almost two generations. Moreover, his motifs are almost subliminally recognizable: the wry face whose nose turns into a detachable line, the worried cats, the Ruritanian flourishes and curlicues, the apocalyptic scenes of street riots and urban breakdown, the setting of the bizarre commonplaces of American life in a cosmopolitan matrix. Such details of Steinberg's work constitute a signature and have subtly altered America...
...what they may be concealing. Yet the difference between the news process and courtroom procedure is profound. The judge is missing-that judge who forbids misleading tactics, freely admonishes both sides, determines which evidence is valid and finally instructs the jury on how it should weigh what it has heard. In the news-gathering process, the press is both prosecutor and sole judge of its own activities-answerable in advance of publication to no one (though it can be sued once the story is out), free to select or disregard evidence as it pleases, free to omit counterclaims, to minimize...
...information and the reportorial pursuit of understanding. Private briefings by policymakers become the insider's wisdom for many Washington columnists. Many officials and politicians speak to the press in private candor, trusting reporters to honor confidences and in return winning trust themselves. In this way real explanations are heard which for diplomatic or other reasons cannot be publicly stated. The process is a wary one on both sides-who's using whom?-but it is often more collaborative, useful to both, than adversary...
...heard you got a single yesterday, Lee!" one of the outfielders jabbed as he trotted toward the dugout. Lee didn't seem to notice...