Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of the Cabinet. Some eagerly ventured their own theories about Reagan's makeup. Others were keen to discuss, in Stacks' words, "a political touch that causes even those who disagree to second-guess their own wisdom." One source so warmed to the topic that a scheduled 45-min. interview lasted more than five hours...
...basing choices. Dense Pack was one of them. National Security Adviser William Clark backed it strongly, and Weinberger agreed to make it the Pentagon's preferred option. After studying a series of one-page memos on the subject, Reagan approved the Dense Pack idea in a 15-min. conversation with Clark last week...
Among other things, the code said that advertising during prime time should be limited to 9½ min. an hour (14 min. for independent stations). The Government filed suit against the N.A.B. in 1979, charging that the code had driven up advertising costs by restricting the supply of air time for commercials. Last week U.S. District Court Judge Harold H. Greene signed a consent decree under which the N.A.B. and Justice agreed to eliminate the restraints. Now, theoretically at least, station owners can flood the air with commericals...
...other words, the broadcasters will not sell more ads than they think the viewer will put up with. Sports programming, for example, is already peppered with ads, and late-night audiences are bombarded with up to 16 min. of ads an hour. Even in prime time, the networks have found ways to stretch their self-imposed limits: an extra ad is run along with the 50-sec. "news briefs" injected into the regular programming. In the past few months all three networks have started selling an extra 30 sec. of advertising, overall, in the three-hour prime-time stretch...
...figures-to know whether his movies are winners or not. His acting in The Verdict is brilliant and solid and, what is more, brilliant in the right direction. He plays a boozy Irish-Catholic lawyer, who is on-screen for nearly all of the film's 125 min., accurately enough to be utterly convincing, with enough restraint so that the audience does not get a hangover, and sympathetically enough so that he reaches out, shakily, and touches heroism. Frank Galvin is a formerly bright and formerly young Boston attorney who was railroaded out of his law firm...