Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Meanwhile, pickets would vie for press attention, and lobbyists for varying causes would voice their grievances. Says Ostling: "Naturally, these groups would cozy up to the press corps to get coverage, and soon sideshows were upstaging the main event." After the veil was lifted, says Ostling, "there was a lull in press coverage. Some bishops thought that when they were more mysterious, they were more attractive. But soon enough, a tremendous interest in the bishops' every move was reborn...
Surf. Waterfalls. Rivers. Country Roads. Video Fish. Even Video Fireplace. Images to lull the senses and, in some cases, deaden the pain; Muzak for the eyes. Video entrepreneurs are selling 60 taped minutes of soothing pictures for folks to turn their televisions into environmental lullabies. Most of the cassettes were initially marketed to hospitals, doctors and dentists, but, reports James Spencer, president of Environmental Video Inc. of Manhattan Beach, Calif., "we are finding that the consumer is more interested than the medical market." The tapes are made to glance at, to distract, not to watch. Sitting down for a serious...
...slangs generated then were interminably publicized. Like the beads and the Afros and gestures and costumes and theatrical rages, slang became an ingredient of the national mixed-media pageant. Now, with more depressingly important things to do (earn a living, for example), Americans may feel a sense of cultural lull...
...movement's leaders are ebullient about their issue's general popularity. "We are in something of a lull," concedes Harold Willens, a wealthy Los Angeles businessman who is leading the campaign to approve the freeze referendum in California. One reason for the uneasiness in the movement is its very success. In less than two years it mounted the largest protest rally in the nation's history: more than 700,000 supporters jammed New York's Central Park in June. In August it failed by only two votes to be endorsed by the U.S. House of Representatives...
JUST LAST SPRING, the civil war in El Salvador monopolized the evening news and morning papers. But since the U.S. backed elections in March brought the extreme right to power, there has been a relative lull in the fighting. The media, understandably busy with conflicts in the Falkland Islands and Lebanon, have shifted their attention elsewhere, giving many the impression that all is well...