Word: sensationalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While withholding their cooperation from investigators with the claim that a white-run system will not accord justice to blacks, the trio of advisers has manipulated the case into a long-running multimedia sensation. Last week the affair was the centerpiece for an extraordinary episode of TV's Phil Donahue...
The slim novel Capote produced at 23 was Other Voices, Other Rooms, which told of the painful growing up of a sensitive Southern child named Joel Knox, widely assumed to be a stand-in for the author. It was well written and convincingly atmospheric, with no word out of place...
"Sometimes I forget when I'm notating that not everybody hears the music the way I do," says Davis, 37. But hearing it they are these days, and cheering it as well. The Manhattan-based composer is enjoying acclaim for the recent premieres of his two latest works: the concerto...
At number-two singles, freshman sensation Jamie Henikoff, playing the number 14th-ranked player in the country, fell in straight sets to Ann Hulbert.
At number one singles, Jon Cardi, the freshman sensation, dropped the first set to Jacob Leschly, 7-6 (7-4), but rallied to win the seesaw second set in the tiebreaker, 7-6 (7-5).