Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bailey's basic attitude is that if exceptions to journalistic norms are permitted, they should be accompanied by full "disclosure-relentless, repetitive, even boring." This seems a tiny answer to a large problem. He argues that disclaimers need Little space: "George Will was Legislative assistant to a Republican Senator before becoming a columnist." But how often should we be told that Diane Sawyer of CBS once worked in Nixon's press office...
DIED. Joseph Losey, 75, expatriate American cinema director whose films were relentless, almost clinical studies of human frailty and spiritual corruption; of cancer; in London. An avowed leftist forced into exile by the McCarthy-era blacklist, he started working in England in 1952 and collaborated with Writer Harold Pinter on most of his best films, including The Servant (1963), Accident (1966) and The Go-Between, which won first prize at the Cannes Film Festival...
...which his people speak, a jargon derived from televised reductions of reality and popularized psychology, leaves them without the tools they need to know their own minds, let alone the complexities of their shared existence. The bitterest of the many laughs Rabe provides derives from his recognition that the relentless articulateness of his people is only a higher form of inarticulateness...
Because of the relentless pace of technogical advances, a final area of exploration will no doubt be issues relating to computers. The last year alone has seen a tremendous surge in the computer facilities here, as well as a proliferation of opportunities for students to obtain cut-rate hardware from companies eager to cultivate the potentially lucrative Harvard market. Harvard is trying, slowly, to come to grips with a technology that has thus far outstripped educators' abilities to capitalize on it fully...
...they are content to make movies-movies that career from thrill to giggle and back to thrill again at 24 frames per second. Nobody does it better; no one has ever done it with quite so much relentless ingenuity. They broke out by going back. Lucas proved with the Star Wars trilogy that the Old Hollywood formula of moviemaking, cagily updated, could work wonders at the box office and in the toy store. His movies are Hardy Boys tales for the space age: they shine like Plexiglas, are as durable as Teflon and have the aftertaste of Tang. Spielberg...