Word: sig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most journalists at last week's conference held out little hope for reforming the way death is covered. "We have a commercial interest in catastrophe," admits Milwaukee Journal editor Sig Gissler. The most realistic changes that can be hoped for, agreed the journalists, are slight improvements in tone and treatment. Said Newsday columnist Sydney Schanberg: "If we see only five seconds instead of 30 seconds of ghoulish film, we've made progress...
...started to become salable, however, with the late '70s interest in retro clothes and in reaction to the flood of maddeningly accurate quartz and digital models available at the local pharmacy. "You can get a wafer-thin watch that keeps perfect time for $20 at a dime store," scoffs Sig Shonholtz, who runs the Second Time Around Watch Co. in Los Angeles. "So what else is there? The only thing left is backlash. It's humanizing to have something quirky and mechanical on your wrist...
Green was both the color of newness and the universal sig nal for go. To be sure, there were times when the light turned red, but that was almost always after things had already gone too far?after all the money was spent and the stock market crashed, after a demagogue had swallowed a dozen countries, afer the ashes of millions had been blown away. Before then, lands off, wait and watch. In 1934 Cole Porter wrote Anything ties; in 1970 Paul McCartney sang...
...White House Press Aide David Prosperi if he would find out whether the rumors were true - at just about the same time that ABC's Bill Greenwood was asking if Brady was dead. "Yes, I will," Prosperi said to Santini, nodding his head, and Greenwood apparently mistook the sig nal as confirmation of his question - though he insists he heard the words "he died." ABC and NBC also went with reports of Brady's death...