Word: promo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps this adversary relationship between sportswriters and jocks is inevitable; these two beasts will never (oh well, rarely) mate. Sportswriters, despite all their in-talk and promo are news reporters; objectivity must be retained, or they lose all credibility and simply become a shill for the team. Writers, regardless of their loyalties, have a responsibility to report the truth...
Living in a large city whose two newspapers have sunk to the level of virtual Carter promo sheets, I had almost come to the point of giving up reading a daily newspaper...
...York area. "Hey, Ned, Chet [Forte, the producer of the New York area game] is two minutes and a commercial behind us," the assistant director relayed. A harried Staeckel ordered a time-out from the ref. And it was decreed. But while Bob Murphy read a promo about the "Wide World of Sports," 20,000 fans sat and wondered why the clock was stopped with 0:01 showing and Harvard ahead...
...good taste and characteristic sophistication have lapsed. Elizabeth Taylor (who plays four roles, including Maternal Love), Ava Gardner (Luxury) and Jane Fonda (who, as Night, is decked out in a costume that makes her look like Ming the Merciless) camp it up like movie queens on an overseas promo junket...
Redford's interest in Watergate began when he heard a group of reporters discussing the bungled breakin. Ironically they were covering the actor's promo tour for The Candidate. They all thought Nixon had probably known about it and that no one?least of all their fellow newsmen?would ever pursue the matter far enough to confirm or deny their suspicions...