Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senator Simon really wants to look at atrocious behavior on TV, he needn't go far. He should turn to C-SPAN. From the thievery of the House Post Office, to the gratuitous sexual overtones of the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, C-SPAN is a virtual moral dunghill. What sort of an influence must such depravity have on the viewer...
Wallin acknowledged that the group was formed to react to a new emphasis on diversity among traditional accreditors, but said that the members span the ideological spectrum...
...most upright of us, like David Broder of the Washington Post, do it. . I do it, and most of my colleagues do it. Even lefties like the Nation's Alexander Cockburn do it. Most of us love doing it. We'll do it for nothing on C-SPAN and ^ MacNeil/Lehrer, or for the TV equivalent of the minimum wage on Meet the Press and Face the Nation. In fact, with due allowance for the rare principled exception, anyone in print who doesn't do it probably hasn't been asked...
...south from the Mississippi 20 miles sooner than usual, forcing several hundred people to join the 7,000 who had already evacuated. Then, Friday night, the Mississippi broke though a sand levee at West Quincy, Missouri, forcing closing of the Bayview Bridge about a quarter-mile away -- the last span that was open over a 200-mile stretch of the river where it flows between Missouri and Illinois. The bridge will be closed for weeks, whatever happens, an indication that worse may yet come before the worst is over...
...performance, or else a dozen intermittently worthy channels, two with nothing but news, two with nothing but congressional sessions, one with nothing but kids' shows, several with music, two with nothing but science and nature programs, and so on. In other words, in a world of CNN, C-SPAN, A&E, the Discovery Channel, public TV begins to seem redundant. Charlie Rose, the 1990s' Dick Cavett, conducts thoughtful interviews with members of the cultural elite every night on PBS. But with the actual Cavett doing the same thing on CNBC, Rose (who last week interviewed Sarah Jessica Parker...