Word: relevantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cruel? Crude? Even a wee bit sexist? You bet pal, but it's not my fault--I'm just your typical cosmopolitan shopper, aged 20-to-35, M.C. Escher on my closet door and cross-country skis within. I breakfast at the Greenhouse Coffee House, brunch at 33-D, and...
Though Bell maintained his evenhandedness in his files, he remembers: "I became convinced during the cross-examination of Hiss in the second trial that he had committed perjury. He quibbled incessantly on irrelevant matters and skimmed quickly over what was relevant - that, plus the typewriter, the documents and the expert...
Yet argument over the factual batting average of such shows is not entirely relevant. A nonfiction TV movie with every line of dialogue taken exactly from the public record can still be a subjective work: each time a director casts an actor as a historical figure or chooses a camera...
The Music Hall was, in effect, a world within itself, a tour de force of art deco dazzle and soaring ceilings that provoked awe and vertigo among the customers. The sheer quantitative excess of its palatial pretensions infected professional journalists with an even greater than normal addiction to statistical literature...
Equally relevant is an evolution of popular taste in entertainment.