Word: showing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson wants to show Yale just that...
...ability to store and transmit images that has made still-video technology attractive to professionals, from architects to fashion photographers. Real estate brokers, for example, use it to show pictures of houses to clients in distant cities. Among the biggest consumers have been news organizations, which use the cameras to cover everything from sports events to political conventions. When the Oscar for best picture is awarded in late March, USA Today plans to capture the moment with a professional Sony still-video system and transmit the pictures to printing plants in minutes. The shots will not be as sharp...
...credit is due: no other dramatic shows on TV deal with such relentlessly uncheery subject matter. Tour of Duty is the more conventional of the two, an L.A. Law-style mix of characters, subplots and issues that are introduced and neatly resolved by episode's end. The show's flaws are familiar: characters who are too simplistic (the hotdogging helicopter pilot, the streetwise black private), and plot twists that are too patly "illuminating." When a battle- fatigued soldier is sent back into combat before he is ready -- over the objections of his sergeant and a psychiatrist -- you can bet that...
...Tour of Duty is the war genre's L.A. Law, China Beach is its thirtysomething: narratively loose jointed, laced with ironic dialogue and moody introspection. Created by John Sacret Young (screenwriter of A Rumor of War) and former magazine editor William Broyles Jr., the show lurches between the fey (a macho war hero parachutes into camp and romances all the women) and % the loquaciously self-important, as if it were a sorority bull session with grenade sound effects. But the writing is a notch above standard-issue TV fare, and the show follows its own adventurous, if sometimes bumpy, path...
...educators object to the idea of the news program itself. Modeled on the Today show and Good Morning America, Channel One will be a fast-paced montage of news headlines, facts and features, along with a focus piece examining one story in depth. The young announcers, who include Kenny Rogers Jr., son of the country-and-western singer, will even spring pop quizzes on their viewers. Example: Which of these two is older, the pyramids or the Great Wall of China? (Answer: the pyramids...