Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scenting a scoop, CNN headquarters in Atlanta had its Moscow bureau chief, Stuart Loory, ask the foreign ministry if the conference would be televised live, an extremely rare event in the Soviet capital. When the reply was yes, CNN bought time on a satellite to hook into the telecast. The Soviets supplied two feeds: one for the picture and sound in Russian, the other for a rendition in English by a Soviet translator. Cost...
...what does it actually mean when one finds somebody responsible for an act because he should have known what would happen? He is not imputing stupidity; the person would probably be let off the hook for merely behaving stupidly. Is he implying gross incompetence or a shallow carelessness? Perhaps, but these contentions, too, lessen the degree of personal culpability. No, when someone in authority is told that he ought to have anticipated a disaster, it means that the grand total of his professional experience and knowledge demanded, beyond reasonable doubt, that he behave differently than he did. Indeed...
...unfortunately, with Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. Though Miller strove for Greek myth, his play is more of a tabloid melodrama. A simple stevedore named Eddie (Tony Lo Bianco) in Red Hook, Brooklyn, allows two of his wife's Sicilian relatives, illegally smuggled into the U.S., to live in his home. The younger one, Rodolpho (James Hayden), falls in love with Eddie's orphaned niece, Catherine (Saundra Santiago...
...Sunday night is the hook," says Brandon Stoddard, president of ABC Motion Pictures. "That's family night, the highest viewing night of the week. By the end of those opening three hours, people will be involved with the characters and interested in what happens to them. After that, the hook gets deeper and deeper every night. Or so I hope...
...wintry day in 1908, Rubinstein was alone, broke and hungry in a Berlin hotel room, his career stalled, unable to pay the rent, a love affair in tatters. He took the belt from an old robe, fastened it to a hook on the wall and put a loop around his neck. As Rubinstein pushed a chair from beneath his feet, the worn belt ripped apart and he landed in a heap on the floor. It was then, he later said, that he learned the secret of happiness: "Love life for better or for worse, without conditions...