Word: soundly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Ollie North took the stand on Tuesday, Reagan walked resolutely through a busy schedule, trying to portray himself as a man with more important work. But in the back corridors of the White House, the sound from the televised hearings leaked out from behind a door or two. Two aides of White House Counsel A.B. Culvahouse monitored every second of the Iran-contra drama; another White House lawyer posted himself in the hearing room to catch the off-camera subtleties and interplay. The Communications Office got it all on tape should Reagan want to take a full look later...
DIED. William S. Halstead, 84, prolific inventor whose more than 80 patents include the technology for adding stereo sound in motion pictures; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Halstead, born in Mount Kisco, N.Y., in 1950 developed a system that allowed FM stations to use sidebands of their main frequencies for stereo transmission. After World War II, Halstead helped create the first commercial TV network in Japan...
...becoming the able reporter she now is, would use up most of her time on network news describing the day's travels, mishaps, crowd reactions -- ephemera that could be found in daily newspaper stories. Sometimes, in the background, the candidate could be seen orating; at the last moment, the sound would pick up Mondale for a quick sentence or two, as if this alone, of all he said, deserved hearing. The other networks were equally condescending. What television is uniquely fitted to do -- show the candidate speaking for himself -- television disdained doing. Television calls these snippets sound bites...
...were mere names before -- Inouye, Hamilton, Rudman, Mitchell, Boren, Hyde, Cohen, Hatch. Their questions, their demeanor and their quirks could be watched.They are now more recognizable than most of the "Seven Dwarfs" seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, who have largely been subjected to television's usual voice-over, snippety sound-bite techniques on the evening news. Of course, networks defend their sound bites by protesting how hard it is to condense all the news into 22 minutes; as serious journalists, they should consider dropping some of those cutesy sign- off feature stories that precede the anchorman's cheery "good night...
...Memphis Record, recorded in 1969, when all the anger and antic experimentation of rock seemed to have left Elvis in the lurch. The 23 songs on The Memphis Record (never released all together until now) were originally conceived as a reassertion of Presley's primacy. In 1987 they sound like a premature last testament. The Memphis Record, as it turns out, is one of the great legacies of American music...