Word: inns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pioneering 24-hour, all-news channel that feeds cable systems nationwide via satellite. A few days later, local station WPIX-TV in New York City started Independent Network News, using a satellite to bounce a daily prime-time national news show to local stations across the country. Says INN News Director John Corporon: "The bird has changed all the rules so that the independents can play in the game." Indeed, industry experts say that CNN and, to a lesser extent, INN, are largely responsible for the unprecedented 4% decline in Big Three news audiences during the past year...
...INN'S record is already being written in black. At 6 o'clock every evening, while Dan Rather, Frank Reynolds and John Chancellor are preparing their evening newscasts in Washington and New York studios, INN'S Bill Jorgensen is banging out his own newscast on a worn black typewriter in the crowded WPIX newsroom in midtown Manhattan. A few hours after some 40 million viewers have seen the three networks' news programs, an estimated 3 million more in 51 cities watch the show anchored by Jorgensen, Pat Harper and Steve Bosh. The result is a revolution...
Among the attractions: a suite for two at the four-star Mayflower Hotel, one block north of the Champs Elysées, complete with terrace, breakfast, tax and service, costs $50.90 (scarcely $5 more than a Holiday Inn around Detroit). Lunch for two at an elegant restaurant (green salad, gigot d'agneau, Cabernet Sauvignon and chocolate charlotte) runs $40. More modest pocketbooks can find such café fare as a small quiche or an omelet at $2, a chef's salad at $3.55. A 14-block rush-hour cab ride comes to $2.25, sans...
...easily accessible as such even to those unfamiliar with the details of German life in this or the 17th century. Grass whisks himself off to one of the many times in history when the sword seemed mightier than the pen. He watches poets' gather at an obscure village inn, all of them taking risks to get there. Brigands and bands of hungry soldiers terrorize travelers; the local river yields up dead bodies. Ignorant armies have been clashing night and day for nearly 30 years. Food is scarce; there is "nothing left to cackle" in the village...
...less ambitious than its famous predecessor, much more an elegy than an encyclopedia. But for all its brevity, the novel fleshes out serious old questions about the place of literature in the lives of nations. Grass allows his imaginary meeting to end on a note of ineffectuality. The inn burns down, and with it a peace proposal that the poets composed: "And so, what would in any case not have been heard, remained unsaid." Yet the writers part with good feelings all around: "After this, none of them would feel quite so isolated." They set off for then" different destinations...