Word: replaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Video monitors, instant replay, cue cards -- it's just like the real thing. Except nobody hears it but you. A TV camera records your every utterance for videotape, and when your inning is up you get a cassette of your performance as well as two tickets to another game. Bring a buddy to do color commentary! Amaze your friends! Appall your mother! No holds are barred, no sentiments bleeped, no expletives deleted. The ump blows a close play at the plate? Give 'im hell...
...body and mood. For TV often catches all the beauty of an event but loses something of the feeling, like a fashion shot that captures a perfect face while leaving one unmoved. Technology can make everything seem too technical: slow motion slows emotions until they seem unreal; instant replays replay the instant again and again until it means less and less, like Warhol's soup cans. Carl Lewis in flight, Jackie Joyner-Kersee in extremis are things of beauty: taken apart on the picture tube, they lose all contact with the natural...
...their acts. The point is not to have the barristers chewing the scenery but to help them get their points across. "If a lawyer overplays and comes across as an actor," notes Coughlan, "then credibility is lost." Some instructors have students practice with real material. Lawyers may, for instance, replay cases that have already gone through the courts, using actors and actresses in the parts of judge, jury and witnesses. Some hire actor- jurors to help them try out strategies for upcoming cases...
Since no START agreement is in sight, the highlight of the Moscow meeting will probably be a replay of last December's summit in Washington: the signing of the final draft of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty to abolish medium-and short-range nuclear missiles. Only a few weeks ago, hopes were fading that a skeptical U.S. Senate would ratify the treaty in time for the summit. But prospects brightened when Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze were able to work out last-minute questions about verification...
...weird replay of the previous inning, McConaghy's hard grounder struck Cobb for the first out of the inning. But with the bases still loaded, Durand blasted a double to the rightfield wall to drive in O'Connell and Konjoyan and knot the score...