Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minute version, and then to a commercial network, which gives the film a new title (The Umpire Strikes Out). To fit a two-hour prime-time slot, the network cuts it to 97 minutes. Later, another network restores much of the footage, including half an hour of outtakes, minus the locker-room sex scene. Finally, 16mm prints are rented to film societies and revival houses, but in a TV-shaped format and with yet another title: La Cage aux Fouls...
Taxes will be slashed 15 per cent a year, each year, until the tax level is down to a prescribed level. Assuming 10 per cent inflation, you have a 25 per cent decrease each year in municipal revenues. Cantabridgians will wait for the business revival minus a lot of teachers, policemen and fire-fighters...
...embracing athletes at the close of the Games is characteristic of nothing in the world or in the Games themselves but momentary (and partly ceremonial) good nature. Observers of the sporting life, like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, had a dimmer view of the Games. Orwell called them "war minus the shooting." The connection with war has always been up front. Coubertin, who argued for French colonialism as ardently as he did for reviving the Olympics, admired the relationship between British colonialism and sports in the public schools. Every Etonian knows how Wellington is supposed to have explained Waterloo. Hitler...
...characteristic run-in with the powers that be, Rooney quit over CBS's refusal to air his essay on war-written, he recalls, from the perspective of "a soft hardhat." The network sold him the piece for a nominal sum, and he took it to public television. Minus his old frontman, Rooney narrated the documentary, and so it was that his on-camera career was launched...
Many journalists liken CNN to all-news radio minus traffic reports and other local features. The absence of these time-consuming staples could be a problem. Says NBC Washington Bureau Chief Sid Davis: "They are launching a monster that has a tremendous appetite. They've got to produce an awful lot of material to keep that thing functioning...