Word: showing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 show. The one-hour broadcast was shot on location in Brooklyn's Bethany Baptist Church, where Brawley's mother Glenda, 33, had ensconced herself to avoid arrest on a contempt-of-court charge resulting from her refusal to obey a grand-jury subpoena...
...feast kicked off the first World Pork Expo trade show, organized by the National Pork Producers Council as part of a campaign to boost pork's popularity. Last year U.S. pork consumption was up only 1.6%, to 7.5 million tons, compared with chicken's 9% rise, to 9.5 million tons. Nonetheless, the producers were encouraged by the BarbeQlossal turnout. They say the feast will make the Guinness Book of World Records. The category: "Largest Single-Day Barbecue Serving...
...Buster Keaton on Quaaludes. Maybe there'd be an early Disney cartoon for more refined preteen appetites. And then, on with the main attraction! The feature was often a broken-down B-minus monster movie, and pretty much an aesthetic anticlimax after the seven-minute masterpieces that opened the show. At the time, of course, nobody figured to hang cartoons in a museum. Chuck Jones, Tex Avery and the Disney elves were considered ghetto artisans then, not the Leonardos of cinema comedy. But even a ten-year-old moviegoer knew that these guys, on the screen and behind the scenes...
Soviet intellectuals are hoping for short, sharp debate at the conference rather than an interminable series of droning speeches. They anticipate secret ballots of uncertain outcome, not the usual unanimous show of party cards. Many delegates are convinced that the conference will decide not only the future of perestroika but also the very course of world Communism. "If conservative forces manage to cut short our revolutionary perestroika and throw us backward, it would mean the moral death and destruction of our party, the party of Lenin," wrote Playwright Alexander Gelman, a Gorbachev supporter. If the conference fails, Gelman warned, "society...
...exacerbated by travel, motel rooms, bad food, public readings and the superficiality of standing in reception lines, I fell in love with Max in a motel room of unusual squalor." Near the end of his life, Cheever, ill with cancer, appears along with John Updike on The Dick Cavett Show. Donaldson carefully paraphrases Cheever's critique of himself after viewing the broadcast: "He looked like a viper trying to break wind, he wrote Updike...