Word: sensationalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enough of this overnight sensation business. Of course, no one had heard of Boston before their first album came out two years ago. Not even heavy corporate types around the record company, who got interested when this virtually unadvertised debut by an unknown group sold its first million albums. Interest...
Kaz (Sept. 10, CBS, 10 p.m.). Ron Leibman is a brash and at times abrasive character actor who does not have what it takes to be a movie star. The small screen is another matter. TV audiences adore performers who burst into their living rooms like loudmouthed relatives. Though such...
Why this apparent digression on Realpolitik in a philosophical work? Because "the metaphysical and political aspects of freedom are in the end inseparable." Ideas are for Barrett, as they were for Plato, "really real"; he writes of them in a confiding, passionate voice that has more in common with his...
The impetus behind the new craze is an improved variety of skate. Borrowing the technology of precision ball-bearing polyurethane skateboard wheels, the new skate wheels offer the wearer an extraordinary maneuverability. Unlike the noisy, steel clamp-ons that kids used to wear, they are smooth and light, gliding over...
During a dive, the light recedes above the conning tower. Silver gives way to green as the sub slowly sinks and finally bumps on the bottom of the bay. A kind of breathing silence enshrouds the diver. When the two electric engines are switched on, the first impact is like...