Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emerged had a mere four congressmen switched their nay votes against Reagan's $43 million contra request. The Sandinistas, upon learning of the vote to extend contra aid, surely would have denounced it as sabotaging the peace process. More aid would have allowed them to continue hiding behind the screen that the contra war, and not their own pathetic fiscal mismanagement, is to blame for the searing poverty and economic woes that afflict the Nicaraguan people. The delicate peace accord would have collapsed, and the United States would have been accused by the international community as the "saboteur...
Minks still account for more than half of all sales, but many young shoppers are looking for something different. Among the options are a yellow rabbit ski jacket with black skiers stenciled all over it, a sheared muskrat with silk-screen Dalmatian dots, and blond Tanuki raccoons with sleeves spiraled like a barber's pole...
Advertising is creative for soccer on European television. There are little five-second silent advertisements when the Michelin man rolls a tire across the screen or a toothpaste logo apears out of nowhere. These ads let the 45-minute halves proceed uninterrupted. Failing that, the ads can take up all of halftime instead of splicing 30-second commercials during action. After all, in soccer, the action is continuous and doesn't lend itself to TV timeouts...
...board remains predominantly blank--until someone puts up a shot. Then one of three or four advertisements gets flashed upon the screen. Once, when a game was getting out of reach, I was taking side bets to whether "Lipton Iced Tea" or "Es Para Usted" would be the next message on the board...
...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...