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When the political activist Al Sharpton pivoted from his war against bigmouth radio man Don Imus to a war on bad-mouth gangsta rap, the instinct among older music fans was to roll their eyes and yawn. Ten years ago, another activist, C. Delores Tucker, launched a very similar campaign to clean up rap music. She focused on Time Warner (parent of TIME), whose subsidiary Interscope was home to hard-core rappers Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur. In 1995 Tucker succeeded in forcing Time Warner to dump Interscope...
...Jeopardy answer as well.) A decade later, he invented history's most successful game show, Wheel of Fortune. When he died, he was in the midst of creating a new game, Crosswords. Some called his shows lowest-common-denominator fluff, but Griffin drew those huge audiences with a real instinct for and rapport with television...
...kept the common touch. His name became synonymous in later years with the kind of fluffy, disposable entertainment that epitomized lowest-common-denominator television in the years when the channels were few and the audience huge. One reason for that huge audience, however, was people who had a real instinct for and rapport with the medium. People like the dear boy himself...
...leadership style is marked by an openness to new ideas and an instinct for crossing boundaries in creative ways," Faust added...
...skilled plastic surgeon employs the precision of science and the artistry of instinct to create the best possible version of what is on the table in front of him. He doesn’t create, per se—he refashions, repurposes, and refurbishes, and if he’s exceptionally good, the finished product looks as natural as nature itself...