Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leonard R. Harris, director of corporate relations for The Times, said Thursday the removal of The Times's name from the title of next year's revised edition is in no way a reflection on Fiske's hook, "we think that the title inappropriately seems as if The Times is making the subjective judgements in the book, and it is not," he added...
Although he scored no goals. Miller was clearly one of the offensive stars of the game. Neatly wiping out several opponents with well-placed hook slides. Miller physically intimidated the hapless. No Jerseys and prompted one player to note. "Ain't nobody gonna forecheck Steve...
Depending on the decision of the tournament committee, which will meet by telephone hook-up sometime Sunday, Harvard may have already secured itself a spot in the eight-team NCAA bracket. Four ECAC teams will be selected, but not necessary the four--Clarkson. New Hampshire, Northeastern and Harvard--that play at the Garden Friday. Three times, the committee has decided that a team which lost in the quarterfinal round deserved a shot at the championship, and all three times that team--Boston University twice and Wisconsin (last year)--has gone on to win the national title. It is conceivable...
...some newsmen call "Mr. Haig's war." Compared with earlier days, there is less camaraderie and pack journalism, there are fewer collective safaris. The competition often borders on frenzy. The TV networks are under pressure to produce bang-bang. "Bang-bang," explains one network TV producer, "is the hook that gets it into the tin. A massacre will do it also." But the army and the guerrillas are not always cooperative. At times there is no bang-bang-at least the networks and still photographers can't find any, and it isn't for want of trying...
Chomsky's characterization of the United States as a "propaganda" state like all the rest--distinguishable only by its more effective and seductive salesmanship--is particularly hard to swallow. For every Sidney Hook who dismissed the havoc of Vietnam as "an unfortunate accidental loss of life" and "the unintended consequence of military action," there was a Noam Chomsky, willing--and able--to stand up and decry the madness. Maybe the reaction came to little too late, but Americans eventually rebelled against their own government's policy and, through their action, ended a nightmare...