Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Justice Warren Burger asked him at precisely 12:03 p.m. No man had ever been readier. While Rosalynn held the family Bible, Carter placed his hand on it; in front of him was the Bible used for George Washington's swearing-in, open to the verse from the prophet Micah that Carter quoted moments later in his Inaugural Address. "Congratulations," murmured Burger after the oath. "Thank you," whispered Carter. The Marine Band struck up Hail to the Chief, Army troops fired 75-mm. howitzers from the Ellipse just off Capitol Hill in the traditional 21-gun salute, and Jimmy...
They demand that he be returned to the airwaves as an angry prophet. Their gambit works; the show's a hit. In domino fashion the old dogs cave in, get fired or die, and the popular-taste programmers take over. They provide scatological offerings around the clock and give UBS its first year in the black...
THIS PLOTLINE, plus the angry prophet's orations, are supposed to serve as an indictment of television--for screening bullshit that panders to our basest instincts instead of intelligent news programming that could educate us. But Chayevsky is the one who is really pandering. He has devised a phony portrait of television's weaknesses and hopes to peddle that message to every Happy-Talk-hating, Tom Snyder-loathing, sit-com-sickened, Dick Cavett-loving liberal who has ever been disgusted with TV's performance. And Chayevsky's dishonesty catches up with him, rendering this film into a harmless vision that...
...into this ferment--this crucible of trials--this Dantean inferno of misdeeds that Martin King, Jr. came, labored and died. And it is fitting that we celebrate the birth of our fallen leader. I make bold to say that Martin Luther King, Jr. was the one genuine prophet developed by the Western World and the United States of America. The fact that he was Black--elevates and illuminates this occasion...
...England that they are the class of the ECAC and that no ice challenge is too great for them. And the funny thing is that the masquerade worked, and will hopefully keep working, up and through the NCAA finals come April. Thanks a lot Leon, you sports prophet...