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Word: relentless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of coverage that the professionals try to resist is glaringly visible in dozens of local TV news shows-sensationalism, indifference to serious news, schlocky personality chatter, on-camera exploitation of people caught in tragic situations, all mixed with relentless upbeat jollity. Such coverage also repels Roone Arledge, who made ABC first in sports coverage and has now been given the assignment to do the same with ABC News. But he is also fascinated. He is not a man to leave ABC a poor third in news ratings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Revving Up the Television News | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...some greater grief than the desolation of war. The moment comes when the narrator sights an "endless" column of Russian soldiers marching under guard. These are the former German P.O.W.s who were dispatched to the Stalinist camps for the crime of having been captured by the enemy. Abruptly, the relentless drumbeat tempo of the meter shifts to a solemn pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Flight into Poetry | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

Does He Drink? The privacy problem has been intensified by the rise of the computer, the relentless superbrain that stores mind-boggling masses of in formation. Federal agencies have 3.8 billion personal records in 6,753 categories from passport applications to Social Security accounts- an average of 18 files for every citizen. State and local agencies maintain at least as many records, while private organizations store three times the federal total. The nation's largest credit bureau, TRW Credit Data of Anaheim, Calif, keeps records on 55 million people. The biggest private investigator, Atlanta-based Equifax, Inc has files...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIVACY: Striking Back At the Super Snoops | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

Scarcely able to be heard above the relentless heckling in the audience, Britain's veteran trade union leader Jack Jones shouted a warning: "If you support this motion, you will not assist the government. You will paralyze it and indeed stand in danger of destroying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Unions Scuttle the Social Contract | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...MOVIE IS called Sorcerer, but there are no sorcerers in it (aside from the trucks that are the real stars of the movie), which is indicative of the scriptwriters' skill in making connections and telling a story. The movie makes little sense; with its atmosphere of grimy, relentless boredom, it provides even less pleasure. Billy Friedkin directed The French Connection, then he directed The Exorcist; with Sorcerer, he accelerates this downward trend...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: A Splatter of Blood | 7/12/1977 | See Source »

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