Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while the Back Bay was the pinnacle of Patriot's Day culture yesterday, Harvard Yard might have been the nadir...
...reportage.... The press is antiseptically objective today, largely because of the wholesale right-wing attack. Statistical studies demonstrate that, in fact, there was more information conveyed about what the candidates said, what their positions were and what their politics were about, than what there is now. This is the nadir of coverage of politics. The networks made the decision because they claim the public isn't interested, but this is a self-fulfilling prophecy and entirely self-serving. Their method...is more debased than ever. The hacks of the past were straighter than the stars of the present...
Blumenthal is correct that the American public is reacting against "the nadir of the coverage of politics," but does that mean that we can look forward to a day when we will no longer be bombarded with scandal after scandal? While Blumenthal seems to place most of the blame on the press, there is a public that sops up the drivel coming out of media outlets. Who is providing the scandals...
...that amid this explosion of great science, the space story that has got by far the most TV coverage has been Shannon Lucid: plucky, hard-luck astronaut sentenced to six months of sponge baths and Russian food. I salute her spunk, but surely the publicity surrounding her represents a nadir of the shuttle program. Space-endurance records are the equivalent of watching grass grow. The endless hurling of men and women into near space has indeed made us the world's authority on zero-G nausea and other fascinations. But can we move on, please? Is monitoring bone decalcification...
Having closely followed the making of the President since 1956, I am appalled by the dramatic rise of pointless hoopla during the national political-party conventions and the increasing lack of debate on important issues. The nadir was reached by the disgusting staging of a public-relations film by the G.O.P. It showed Dole in a small Italian town near where he had been seriously wounded in April 1945. This injury does not make him a war hero but a war casualty, and is certainly no guarantee that 50 years later he'll have a successful presidency...