Word: hourly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subtle about the Chinese leadership's tactics. Tell the lie again and again. Broadcast mug shots of wanted "hooligans." Lionize citizens who cooperate by ratting on alleged culprits. Parade arrested students before cameras, their heads shaved and bowed, their wrists cuffed, signs detailing their crimes strapped around their necks. Hour after hour, run their "confessions" of wrongdoing on national television. Construct a new reality, one that checks democratic aspirations by preying on fear and paranoia. The result? "A week ago we were free to say anything," says a university professor. "Now I suspect everybody...
...claim has some surface plausibility. As Moral Majority chairman, Falwell contributed loudly, if not decisively, to three consecutive conservative victories in presidential elections and nurtured the antiliberal atmosphere in which courts are tilting to the right. The 1980 election of Ronald Reagan, he once declared, was "my finest hour...
Falwell admits that when he temporarily took over the Praise the Lord organization after Jim Bakker was forced out by a rancid sexual scandal in 1987, donations to his Old Time Gospel Hour fell $5.3 million. By 1987, the Moral Majority had so dwindled that Falwell resigned as president. Atlanta businessman Jerry Nims says he took over the assignment with a mandate to phase out the organization. This year contributions were expected to be no more than $3.5 million...
...gaily vandalizes some classic paintings, the film spells the museum's name two different ways; and when he starts tossing $20 million in cash onto the street, the good people of Gotham don't go into a looting frenzy and attack his perch. More important, the picture's first hour poses one big question: How will ace photographer Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger) react when she learns that Bruce is Batman? We never find out; the revelation occurs offscreen...
Whittle touts the new network as a watershed in American education. The company promises to provide 1,000 hours of free satellite time and $500,000 annually to make instructional programs accessible to participating schools. The Whittle network could even accommodate Channel One's recently announced cable competitors: CNN's Newsroom, a 15-minute daily newscast, and Discovery Channel's Assignment: Discovery, an hour of instructional programming...