Word: merger
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...disparity between this confession and Bobby's initial speech on his faith in God reflects the schizophrenic quality of the movie which produces a dizzying effect, also revealing the ill-suited merger of this amorphic style and Bobby's own controlling impulses. Questions to the crew like, "Should I just let [Amin] be in a bad mood?" further illustrate Bobby's incapacity for letting God take over...
Kennedy's brief speech drew critical questions from several in the audience who questioned the merger of pop culture and politics and the comparison of politically active citizens and consumers...
...again for CBS," says Alan Bell, president of Freedom Broadcasting, which owns three CBS affiliates. "It's not the same CBS it was the last time they were on the bottom. It's much more demoralized and disorganized. It has lost many major-market stations. And any kind of merger is a real culture shock...
...Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of Westinghouse Inc. and CBS, creating the nation's largest broadcaster. "The merger helps CBS because it gives them a large number of new affiliates, which should bolster them as a network" says senior media writer Richard Zoglin. (Westinghouse/CBS owns 16 TV stations reaching 32 percent of the country, and 39 radio stations.) "It doesn't help them in terms of broad-based communications," Zoglin adds, "because Westinghouse, like CBS, doesn't have extensive cable holdings. Westinghouse is a long-established corporation with a reputation for tightfisted management, which could mean some job layoffs...
...embedded in Colin Powell's decision. It has to do with the sight, unexpected in politics, of a sane man being true to himself--unaffectedly displaying an integrity that has a faraway feel, like Frank Capra movies from the '30s. In the '90s politics and entertainment have completed a merger through media--an unwholesome synthesis that produces a whole circus of falsifications and unrealities, a kind of drug dream. The drug is power, that stimulant and hallucinogen. Even with the highest office in the world apparently available to him ("The first black ."), Powell remained comfortably within himself. It was there...