Word: sensationalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no book of rules for television announcers, and Stanton learned the tricks by trial & error. Before many weeks, he was supplying rules and statistics for bewildered sports fans, ignoring the obvious, calling an occasional play wrong to delight armchair experts, devising a set of silent signals and on...
Perhaps the most ballyhooed performer is Mathis Duo (first time in America) who rides a bicycle upside down somewhere close to the Garden's roof. Although the band doesn't play "A Bicycle Built For Two," the effect is quite convincing if not entirely stylish. Another show-stopper hides under...
In a catalogue introduction, Sterne tried to explain how it happened: "My renaissance," he wrote, "took place about three years ago. ... I was too ill to work and was admiring my view from the porch; the incoming tide, the crimson and orange and gold of the sunset, the delicate nuances...
With the wheel spinning at 18,000 r.p.m., the sound has a pitch of 24,000 cycles-too high for the normal human ear. But if two sheets of paper are placed in the beam, the nearer is cooled by the air blast, while the second bursts into flame. Once...
Descending into the realm of will-they-last child prodigies, the sensation of the season, not only from a musical point of view, was the conducting of 9-year-old Pierrino Gamba, still clad in short pants. After a tour of his native Italy, he made brief appearances in Lagano...