Word: screen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...networks' financial woes are increasingly being reflected on the home screen, for good and ill. News programming is becoming more popular with network executives because it costs less to produce. CBS now has three hours of news in prime time; ABC has one and is planning a second for January. The networks are looking more kindly at other "reality" shows as well. ABC, for instance, has just set up a new subsidiary to produce nature shows and other nonfiction specials, both for the network and for other outlets...
...AIDS test is also widely used to screen donated blood for the virus and to check homosexual men and drug addicts, who are at high risk of AIDS. However, experts disagree over whether such screening should remain largely voluntary or be expanded to include mandatory testing of people at low risk of AIDS, such as all hospital patients...
...only a smattering of his routines, although the reporting team of Dick Enberg, Mary Lou Retton and especially Bart Conner explained the events incisively. Fans of men's diving were lucky to see Greg Louganis tucked into the bottom right-hand corner while a minor basketball game dominated the screen...
...perhaps the last real amateurs in the field are those who watch, the ones who have not spent four years pumping iron or hype. They are the ones who enjoy the Amateur's Games, the behind-the-scenes, behind-the-screen games that are made not for TV but V.T. (as in "visceral thrill"): the Olympic Games for those who want to play at being kids again. They begin by sneaking around the back of the Olympic stadium just before the opening ceremonies, to get close-ups of the athletes, out of line and out of synch, as they prepare...
...film is not just television writ large, and TV-bred filmmakers seem incapable of avoiding the trap of putting stories and images better suited to the confines of the idiot box on the big screen, adding special effects and a few cuss words. There is also the danger, to the filmgoer, that such a project is little more than a 90-minute commercial for tchatchkes with the star's name on them...