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...Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and Kevin M. Haninger, a PhD candidate at HSPH, were invited to speak on the popular sports news program for their research on the content and rating systems used for video games, in the last of a four-part series on the medium broadcast by “SportsCenter...
...presidential campaign. If it does, we may come to look back on its hugely successful first week the way we now think of the televised presidential debate between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon, as a moment when we grasped for the first time the potential of a mass medium--in this case, movies--to affect American politics in new ways. If that's the case, expect the next generation of campaign strategists to precede every major election not only with the traditional TV ad buys but also with a scheme for the rollout of some thermonuclear book, movie...
...interested us when we were in our twenties and talking about cartooning a lot was not so much the content of the stories but breaking away from the traditional approach to how cartoon stories are told," Seth told TIME.comix. "Certainly for the history of comics, it's been a medium of expediency. In the old days a cartoonist would have to tell a whole story in eight pages...
...Soviet Union as the "evil empire" and accused its leaders of claiming "the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat." To armor such rhetoric, Reagan demanded and got a huge increase in U.S. defense spending. He nearly doubled defense spending during his first term while deploying medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe and battling communists in Central America. He rarely gave ground, and fumbles in foreign policy--like the deaths of 241 Marines on an ill-advised mission to Lebanon in 1983--were eclipsed by sending the troops into Grenada only days later...
...first prominent Hollywood actors to defect to the much scorned new medium of TV, Reagan revived his acting career. The General Electric Theater, with Reagan as host from 1954 to 1962, dominated the Sunday-night ratings. But what changed Reagan was his tours of the GE plants. Later, Reagan's opponents often underestimated him, dismissing him as "just an actor," an amateur lacking political experience. What they failed to see was that although Reagan had not spent much time in conventional politics, he had gained both skill and experience in what was to become the politics...