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...Coolest Electoral Map Gimmick: CBS. All "turnover states" - those that went for the opposite party in 1996 - throb like beating, irradiated hearts. Right now, Kentucky looks like it's going to explode...
...Well, frankly, it's hard to say any network is hands-down better or worse most election nights, given the sameness of most of their roundtable-talking-head-electoral-map setups. But we can hand out a few awards, anyway, with more to come...
...cameraman, a little punchy like the rest of us, is waxing avant-garde. He or she is focusing tight on the state of Florida, marked "too close to call" on the electoral map. There's a red tint to the picture, and the state is colorless, ringed in a bright line. The camera has a bit of a fuzzy focus effect, so that the state appears to be etched onto the map by a luminous ring of fire...
While it's easy to snipe at AT&T's latest plan, it's harder to map out a better one. The telephone industry today is a vortex of change, shaped by rapidly advancing technology and a raging free market--oddly similar to what it was in the late 1800s, when telephony was new and hundreds of competitors were stringing wires. AT&T won that battle, becoming a well-fed monopoly. But now what AT&T does is also done by the Baby Bells, a slew of long-distance carriers, wireless long-distance providers and even the Internet...
...other conductor Schuller acknowledges is Dmitri Mitropoulos, who was the music director of the New York Philharmonic at the time. "Mitropoulos really put me on the map when he conducted two pieces of mine in a season, which was unheard of. Next thing I know, I'm getting congratulatory letters from the leading American composers of the day, like Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland. I was completely unknown at the time...