Word: showings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...daunting things. Cacophonies of competing phone companies, and car and poolside cellulars, have not yet proliferated in Paris. It is in California, not the Dordogne, where your teenager phones you and then puts you on hold. Similarly, Europeans remember when their films were the risque ones. Hah! Now . the show is on the other foot. Europeans at the TV children's hour would be aghast at the torrent of video violence, the Tampax-machine gags on Murphy Brown, or the 27 -- count 'em -- condom jokes in a single segment of Kate & Allie...
...wear a tuxedo anymore. He wears a necktie, though, and he mixes with the stars. While he was waiting to be seated for lunch at the Ivy in West Hollywood one day, Zsa-Zsa Gabor and her mother mistook him for the maitre d' and asked him to show them to their table. She called him "Darling." He still hasn't decided if he should have called her Miss Gabor, or just plain...
...respond very simply: the networks can show what they want to show. The advertiser can sponsor what he wants to sponsor. And the consumer can spend his money where he wants to. What the implication is there is that I must spend my money with these companies to help support these programs that I find offensive. I don't believe that...
...after days of invisibility, as Deng and his conservative supporters, appropriately clad in Mao suits, paraded across the television screen to show their grip on power late last week, the contradictions -- and the questions -- remained. For the time being, the old men seemed to be in control again. But for how long? If the Chinese were being cowed into submission, a long- standing compact between them and their government had been broken. Tiananmen Square and Beijing might belong to the P.L.A., but the struggle for control of China is far from over...
...what may have been planned only as a show of force turned into a bloodbath. Soon armed soldiers and unarmed protesters were locked in furious combat. Ruan Ming, a former lecturer on Marxism at Beijing's Communist Party School, argues that a propaganda blitz mounted by the government last week to justify the Tiananmen sweep was an attempt to "salvage the situation and save face...