Word: segmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pouring bourbon down her throat. The stories are exquisite in and of themselves because Hellman has a sharp memory for detail and is a master storyteller. But because the stories break up the passage of events in her book, they destroy the buildup of dramatic tension. Hellman's last segment begins with the words "Nothing more was to happen to me." She deliberately avoids the high tragic ending of all stories about martyrs...
...Mitchell of WBZ-T.V. interviewed and filmed Meadow working out and posing in his Dunster weightroom. The spot appeared in a ten-minute segment of "Eyewitness Report...
DELAY. Gag orders can impede or compromise the public's access to information it has a right to have. ABC-TV, as a part of a 1973 documentary on fire hazards, had a segment showing a flaming plastic crib; the crib manufacturer, alleging potential damage to the firm's reputation, got a judge to order the film clip removed only hours before the broadcast. ABC excised the scene but fought the case successfully; nine months later the disputed film was shown on the evening news...
...respectable academic stature, whereas the administration seems to be determined to force Afro-American Studies in the direction of an unusual and strange committee-like program entitled "Department" for political reasons. It is a well-known fact that there are no regular Harvard departments that deal with just one segment of the American population. History, Economics, or Government are not departments organized to deal with just one segment of American society; they are departments created with the intention of dealing with their separate and respective branches of knowledge on a global basis, though as presently constituted they deal primarily with...
...among the disaffected. In 1972, before he was injured, Wallace was campaigning for the Democratic nomination and appeared to stand a good chance of emerging as a major power broker at the Democratic National Convention. This situation demanded a new political strategy, one which would appeal to a broader segment of the electorate, one which might be termed covertly racist. As a paralyzed Wallace, employing this latter approach faded quickly in the early primaries of this new presidential season, Jimmy Carter, perceived by many to be the front-runner for the nomination, has moved quickly in an effort...