Word: length
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possibility of discussing complex issues on television when someone is given only 90 seconds to speak is practically non-existent." Wilson said. "I avoid that problem by having people talk at length and have them discuss things in detail...
...West for Nostalghia, which won three prizes, including a special award for creative cinema, at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. According to Tarkovsky, Soviet officials tried to have the picture withdrawn from the competition. The dispirited director says that he has been allowed to make only six feature-length films during a 24-year career. Present as Tarkovsky made his emotional announcement were three other famous exiled artists from the Soviet Union: Cellist-Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, Stage Director Yuri Lyubimov and Writer Vladimir Maximov. All understood Tarkovsky's bitter complaint: "I cannot help but ask why they persecute...
...convention opens hi San Francisco next Monday night. For the first time in three decades they will not be assured gavel-to-gavel coverage on network TV. All three networks are abandoning their traditional formats for a mixture of live action and taped highlights in segments of varying length. On some nights, portions of the proceedings on one network may be competing against entertainment programming on another. Similar arrangements will be in effect for the Republican Convention in Dallas in August. The networks' reasoning is simple: gavel-to-gavel coverage is very expensive, and the number of viewers it attracts...
...variegated Bay Area. Yet for all his clout as San Francisco's arbiter of the quotidian, Caen makes modest claims for his 1,000 words of items and sightems. "A lot of people time their boiled eggs by my column," he says. "It's just the right length...
...sports section. But the paper does have conspicuous weaknesses: cover age of popular culture is spotty, and personality profiles, whether of athletes or political figures, are too few and too superficial. As Gannett anticipated, the paper is still viewed as slight by many journalists, although its executives reply that length does not equal depth. Says Editor John Quinn: "We are not up to undertaking projects of the dimensions needed to win prizes. They don't give awards for the best investigative paragraph...