Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still the national pastime, but one that a majority of fans followed from afar. The 16 major league teams were clustered in only 10 cities, with St. Louis as the westernmost outpost. In that pre-television era, sports heroes were made out of words, those spoken over the radio during play-by-play broadcasts and those printed in newspapers the next morning. No wonder legends arose. Most people experienced baseball by reading adventure stories in the daily press or by listening, the way the ancient Greeks did, to the voices of the bards...
...successful rookie season confirmed and enhanced the DiMaggio mystique. The next year, a radio broadcaster called him "the Yankee Clipper," a tribute to the way he sailed so majestically while pursuing fly balls across the green expanses of center field. His batting skill won him the sobriquet "Joltin' Joe." Meanwhile, the young man from Fisherman's Wharf was acquiring a Manhattan polish. He took up tailored suits and the high life at Toots Shor's nightclub, where the habitues treated him like a god who had inexplicably deigned to join their mortal company. He dated beautiful women, including actress Dorothy...
NAME: Rush Limbaugh OCCUPATION: Radio talk-show blowhard BEST PUNCH: Read listener's e-mail on air that expressed the hope that Charles Grodin, Alan Dershowitz and Geraldo Rivera would have "simultaneous strokes" leaving them "without the gift of speech...
NAME: Charles Grodin OCCUPATION: TV talk-show blowhard BEST PUNCH: Claimed that by reading the e-mail on his show, Limbaugh was promoting "hate, anger and adversarial feelings." Added that talk radio is a "destructive element" in our culture...
...wags his finger, his voice will betray him. That's the premise behind Fortress, a $30 lie-detector program you can download from www.digitalrobotics.com to your PC and use to test your friends and family (with their consent, of course) or sound bites pulled off the Net, TV or radio. It analyzes recordings in any language. Beeps during playback signal an effort to deceive...