Word: sensationalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If the powers that be ever decided to reincarnate the old "Jack Armstrong: The All-American Boy" series, Harvard freshman football halfback sensation Paul Connors would be a natural for the title role.
Comparing this experience with the compulsive sensation of gawking at a traffic accident fails to capture the essence of the phenomenon under study here. On the one hand, you are dealing with a mass of tangled metal marking the deaths of otherwise unknown people, while on the other hand you...
Freshman sensation Susan St. Louis once again paced the Crimson attack, netting one goal and firing several other near misses. St. Louis set up Harvard's first score at 15:20 of the first half, when her shot beat the Tufts goalkeeper and a desperate Tufts defender had to knock...
Nureyev's supporting cast does little to help pick up the slack. Making a comeback on the screen for the first time since the days of An American in Paris, Leslie Caron plays a middle-aged Russian star on the decline, who dreams of sharing top billing with the new...
The decline of the New York press continues apace. Last year saw the invasion of sensation-mongoring marsupial Rupert Murdoch; it has taken the money-mad Presslord Erom Down Under less than a year to transform the New York Post fro a blue-collar version of the New York Times...