Word: reade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poll for TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 42% of those who saw or read about the exchange said they believed that Bush came out ahead, while 27% said Rather did. (Republicans split 59% to 16% in Bush's favor, but Democrats split 40% to 31% in Rather's favor.) Yet when asked whether it was right for Rather to push Bush on his role in the Iran-contra affair, 59% replied that it was (including 46% of the Republicans and 72% of the Democrats). Moreover, 79% said they believed the Vice President knows more about the arms-for-hostages deal...
Obviously, the printed page, the linear medium, divorces information from time: one can go back and reread and think more and read again, because the words are frozen upon the page and therefore have a sort of timeless status. TV rushes headlong through real time, and given the constrictions of schedule, it is often a second-rate instrument with which to pursue the truth. The written word can commit the profoundest treacheries with the truth, but the hope of writing is at least to preserve the active integrity of the brain that is receiving the words. Television, flowing into...
...executive vice president of the American Jewish Committee: "Using brute force evokes other times and places when it was used against us." Said Balfour Brickner, senior rabbi of Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue: "When the Israelis become like their enemy, they are no different from their enemy." "We read with shame," wrote four Jewish intellectuals in a letter to the New York Times, "reports of house to house beatings of hundreds of people, leading to broken bones and hospitalization of the aged and children." The letter was signed by Author Irving Howe; Economist Henry Rosovsky, a former Harvard dean...
...monster-meets-girl musical. No previous offering in Broadway history has rivaled the $18 million advance sale for Phantom, a commitment made by hundreds of thousands of people to pay up to $50 a ticket, generally before having had a chance to hear any of the songs, read any reviews or acquire the vaguest familiarity with the imported-from- London stars...
...show's lures are known commodities: Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar) and Director Harold Prince (Cabaret, Follies) have mounted some of the flashiest spectaculars of recent years, including their prior collaboration, Evita. Practically everyone, it seems, has seen a movie version of Phantom, although few have read Gaston Leroux's turgid 1910 thriller about the hideously misshapen genius who constitutes himself the shadow ruler of the Paris Opera House and, upon becoming infatuated with a chorine, maneuvers her career from afar. The beauty-and-the- beast theme and subterranean wonderland setting echo the myths of Persephone, Pygmalion...