Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public criticized the media's coverage of the episode, but it also watched attentively. Without the benefit of instant ratings, television knew what the public wanted and what it had to deliver. Was it successful? Fifty-seven percent of the sample in a WCVB-TV (Ch. 5) poll said the media devoted too much attention to the story; they were watching a WCVB broadcast about the crisis at the time...
...MANY ARTISTS, the photograph is not merely an instrument to capture an instant of life which they have uncovered. The image on film can be as abstract as a stray brush stroke on canvas. Many of the photographers have hidden their pictures, unfocused or brushed over them, to obscure the subject and highlight the shapes. The photographs have become, for better or worse...
...dried fish), Yugoslavian black-currant syrup and Borjouri seltzer water direct from Soviet Georgia. El Mundo III in Jackson Heights is one of the city's 6,500 bodegas, tiny mama-y-papa Hispanic grocery stores that sell fresh coconuts and plantains, yucca and 10-lb. bags of rice, instant masa from Venezuela or Colombian figs in syrup. Compared with the big chain stores, bodegas are expensive but friendly, loose, Latin. "If you needed five cents," says the Cuban owner of a bodega on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, "the A&P wouldn't give it to you. Here, our customers...
...instant planes are hijacked, hostages seized, embassies blown up or sleeping Marines killed, that particular battle has been lost. We can only try to limit the defeat. The task that we have rarely undertaken with fervor and ingenuity is anticipating and preventing the next tragedy, to the extent that is possible. The invasion of Grenada stands as a notable and successful example...
...instant, the tornado was upon them. Unable to reach their basement because of the glass shards whipping through the air, the Gosnells huddled on the floor. By the time the storm abated, a stop sign poked through the ceiling of their son's room and an exercise machine had been transplanted from their bedroom to their daughter's. The front yard looked freshly plowed and the few trees still standing had been stripped of their leaves. The Gosnell's hometown of Atlantic, Pa. (pop. 225), had been leveled, its feed mill, post office, general store and gas station all destroyed...