Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned, as usual, to baseball. An not just to the game itself, but to the exciting prospect of new uniforms and a tight pennant race. No first fight no matter how ugly was going to kill Little League in Tenafly. The older folks could worry now and yell and scream later; no one pounding the base paths at Sunnyside had time to worry about such distractions...
Wall Street analysts, however, are more cautious. "I don't think we can scream that the recovery is at hand," says Maryann Keller of the Paine Webber investment firm. Even after an upbeat May, auto sales for the year so far are 36% less than during the same months in 1978. The automakers continue to confront the problems that first triggered their prolonged slump: high interest rates, a weak economy and fierce competition from Japanese imports. Says Fran McCormack, general manager of Clayton Motors Dodge in East Hartford, Conn.: "There are obviously a lot of people who need...
Editors Greenfield and Bradlee of the Washington Post [May 10] are guilty of hypocrisy. Editors decry publicists as flacks, yet scream when information isn't available. Whether editors like it or not, the press and the public relations profession are in a partnership. Only when newspapers build up their reporting staffs so that they can do the job alone will the need for the professional public relations person go away...
...horror movie about malevolent spirits that infiltrate the home of an ordinary California family. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, which he devised and directed, tells of a creature from outer space who is mistakenly abandoned on earth and befriended by three school-age children. "Poltergeist is a scream," Spielberg says. "E.T. is a whisper." The first film means to thrill, the second to enthrall. Both succeed beyond anyone's expectations, perhaps even those of their prodigious creator. They re-establish the movie screen as a magic lantern, where science plays tricks on the eye as an artist enters the heart...
...Director, that it won't even be difficult to skirt the spirit of the Constitution once the public is sufficiently whipped into a "homosexual scare." No one will argue that Constitutional rights are absolute, on our side is the old adage that freedom of speech doesn't permit a scream of fire in a crowded theatre. "Negative social pressures" may well prove effective in covertly abridging gays civil rights. While supporting freedom of speech for gays, we will work hard to harass anyone who listens to gays' public speeches, while supporting freedom of the press for gay publications, we will...