Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Penn, which last year became the first Ivy team since the 1970 Dart-mouth squad to win all seven of its league games, opens defense of its 1984 crown this weekend against Cornell...
Therein lies the daunting challenge that Amazing Stories faces. Prime-time series attract loyal viewers by their familiarity, not by offering a vagrant astonishment each week. The operative word-of-mouth phrase is "you ought to see," not "you should have seen." Amazing Stories has no continuing characters, tone or stars--not even a regular host, like Hitchcock or Rod Serling. Viewers may prefer to settle in with Angela Lansbury's rumpled caginess in Murder, She Wrote instead of taking a chance with the faceless brilliance of the Spielberg series...
...bullying Sam Donaldson ("So you're running your mouth so I can't speak?") insisted that Speakes has a duty, as in a court of law, to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. This is nonsense, and Donaldson knows it. At times a press secretary speaks with fingers crossed behind his back. Government has no duty to reveal its private deliberations but risks its truthworthiness when it blatantly misleads. It is in such a context that news stories about the forthcoming summit meeting should be judged. Reagan and his advisers used to say that summits without well...
...frequently as his predecessors. His senior aides, who are owlishly circumspect on the Sunday TV talk shows, can be more forthcoming in private interviews when guaranteed anonymity. The awkwardness of this arrangement is that the press can only hint that its information comes from the horse's mouth and that this particular horse is not just any old dray horse. Such anonymous sourcing is irritating to the reader, and a burden on the press's credibility, but remains a useful device to convey what really seems to be afoot...
...jelly-bean consumption, particularly the aggressive search-and-destroy method of then Secretary of State Haig. "He grasps the jar firmly with both hands," noted Baldrige about Haig, "peers with great intensity into its depths and searches until he finds two red jelly beans. These he pops into his mouth, and there is an audible crunch as he masticates them into oblivion. The man just doesn't like the color...