Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Light would also like to tie some of the events to community service. "We're trying to make freshman intramurals more broad in scope. We'd like to turn it away from pure athletics to more of a group activity," he says...
...series makes some of its most provocative points in two episodes devoted to TV news. Simply by its presence, television sometimes exaggerated the scope of 1960s street demonstrations: a "mob" looks more threatening in closeup, we are shown, than when the camera pulls back to reveal the relatively small number of people involved. There is much fascinating footage of John F. Kennedy's and Richard Nixon's TV appearances, illustrating once again how friendly the medium was to one, cruel to the other. Nixon's "Checkers" speech, one of his rare TV triumphs, is included, of course -- but not just...
...Name of the Rose, but instead of monks doubting their faith, here are superheroes weighed down by their creed, caught in a world they never made but that is remaking them, and showing no mercy. Watchmen has been attracting some heavy Hollywood attention. But a book of this scope can only be scaled down and confined on a screen, no matter how lavishly it is adapted. Graphic novels are cinema for the page, but they are already outsizing the medium they have learned so much from...
Ultimately, technology can take arms control only so far. The biggest concern raised by negotiators of the recent treaty was the verification of those provisions beyond the scope of surveillance technologies. Satellites can count missiles and silos and bombers, but they cannot monitor the disassembly of nuclear warheads. To be assured that this is done, both sides were forced to rely on on-site inspections and the most sophisticated technology of all: the human...
...response from the West has again been generous. Last week BBC Correspondent Michael Buerk, whose reporting first alerted the world to the scope of the last famine, led an appeal that raised $650,000 in five days. Weeks before the latest drought attracted publicity, the major private food- aid agencies -- the Red Cross, Oxfam, Caritas, Care and Catholic Relief Services -- were shipping food by sea and air and distributing it to the needy...