Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Proctoring means keeping an open mind" also kept popping up at the orientation sessions, but as the hordes march back from their first encounter with Sebastion Sandwiches at the Union, the caste lines are already becoming clear. A quick primer on how the nation's eleventh grade elite arranges itself...
...January with CNN2. The programs use the same raw material as CNN but reshape it into a 24-hr, hard-news "headline service," similar to network news shows or all-news radio. In contrast to CNN, which is structured for extended viewing, CNN2 is meant to provide a quick catch-up on the news whenever the audience tunes in. The service is supplied via satellite to cable systems that are wired into 1.5 million homes, and to some 78 broadcast TV stations. Sixty-six of them are affiliates of the Big Three networks. Cable operators...
...country's largest non-network station group, have joined to offer their own 24-hour cable news headline service, Satellite News Channels, which started airing June 21. To date, however, SNC is less varied and ambitious than CNN. It offers three 18-min. newscasts an hour, plus 'quick regional news bulletins. SNC, like CNN2, is intended for brief sampling rather than the extended viewing sought by CNN; the new service is explicitly patterned after similarly repetitive all-news radio stations. SNC's ABC footage is limited to stories that do not feature network correspondents; the network thus...
Chuck Lumley (Henry Winkler) is a human fire hydrant for the mad dogs of Manhattan. Delivery boys smear mustard on his door jamb. Sex with his fiancée, a compulsive eater, is a quick kiss between bites of Mallomars. And his new partner on the night shift at the city morgue. Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton), is trouble: a pin wheel of sputtering ideas, a motormouth that roared. Out of desperation and a growing fondness for the girl next door (Shelley Long), Chuck devises a scheme that will make them all rich: he and Billy will act as "business agents...
...Aunt Julia and I watch in openmouthed amazement, by changing props and costumes Pedro Camacho transformed himself [into] an old lady, a beggar, a bigot, a cardinal... During this series of lightning-quick changes he kept talking, in a fervent tone of voice. 'And why shouldn't I have the right to become one with characters of my own creation, to resemble them? Who is there to stop me from having their noses, their hair, their frock coats as I describe them?' he said, exchanging a biretta for a meerschaum, the meerschaum for a duster...