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Word: moonlight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except for Tin Sang and a couple of other papers. Vietnamese who care about what is really happening usually resort to foreign radio stations anyway. Many read their papers more for titillation than truth, and serialized romantic novels outweigh political polemics as circulation builders. Reporters routinely moonlight for as many as six papers of opposing political persuasions and cheerfully quote an old adage, which rhymes in Vietnamese: "A journalist is a man who tells lies to make money." Newspapers have existed in Viet Nam for more than a century, but Journalism Professor Nguyen Ngoc Phach characterizes their history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Saigon's Publishing Perils | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

...became the FCC's first fighting chairman. He initiated reform of horizontally expanding networks; he established a precedent by which station owners at license renewal time would have to face a hearing and competitive bidding; and he compared the National Association of Broadcasters to "dead mackerel in the moonlight...it both shines and stinks." Not intimidated by politicians, Fly also resisted pressure from the Dies HUAC, which claimed that two FCC underlings had been associated with Communist front organizations...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Fifty Golden Years of Broadcasting... | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...Chairman Fly compared the NAB To "dead mackerel in the moonlight...it both shines and stinks...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Fifty Golden Years of Broadcasting... | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...record closes with another excellent ballad, "Moonlight Mile." I just don't know what to make of this song, although I love it. It's a bizarre cut, with words that are inaudible and music that sounds like the theme from Sayonara...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: Vinyl Sticky Fingers Don't Smash States | 5/12/1971 | See Source »

...lifeless beneath our wheels and exploded in passing on our glass less tangible adversary in the summer-you feel it moving invisible around you, winter a fair opponent, cold all behind the ears and in moon shadow more than afternoon suns naked in the midnight standing in the moonlight, with everything visible in precise shadow is quite silence, the reflected sun, fluid in its coolness is substantial as its warmth in day, contouring in degree around arms and neck and chest, a diminishing sensation into mystery of deeper shadow than sun an adobe ruin cut into and through a hill...

Author: By Michael Hentges, | Title: From a Journal of a Past Year | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

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