Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This concern is not baseless. Appearing on C-SPAN in an effort to defend this legislation, Rep. Toby Roth (R-Wis.) alluded to this trend of "Anglocentricity," stating, "We do not want any hyphenate Americans in this country; we do not want Italian-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Korean-Americans...." Roth added that we will not repeat the mistakes of the former Soviet Union by allowing multiple languages in our country, thus causing its disintegration...
...pearl is in the middle: a fable of courtship in seven Paris parks in a two-month span. He, the lit student, professes his ardor with erudite intensity; she, the math student, is a seductive tease. She won't go to his apartment because it "lacks poetry," yet she proposes a two-day affair in which they'll play tourists in their own town. Rohmer adds a sour twist, but the enveloping mood is genial, the body language eloquent, the two players (Serge Renko, Aurore Rauscher) expert entrancers. One wants to bottle this episode; it's the perfect little gift...
...approach in the future. "Assuming the candidate has been decided before the convention," says Lane Venardos, who oversaw CBS's coverage, "I can't imagine us going through this kind of rigmarole again." Jeffrey Zucker, his counterpart at NBC, points out that with such cable channels as CNN, C-SPAN and MSNBC providing full coverage, the broadcast networks are under less obligation to do so. "It's their party, and they can throw it the way they want to," says Zucker. "But that doesn't mean we have to cover it. And I'm not sure that in the future...
...wait to cue up some Johnny Mathis albums. Even in Washington, his neighborhood is a sound stage: he lives in the Watergate, spends Sundays going to church, appearing on talk shows and taking Elizabeth to brunch. He has no grandchildren to divert him and few hobbies beyond watching C-SPAN or old movies. He vacations in Florida at a condominium complex where he pals around with David Brinkley and Robert Strauss and Dwayne Andreas--men taking the same break from the same loop...
This year many of the journalists in Houston will find ourselves, as we did four years ago, lingering in our hotel rooms, watching C-SPAN replay footage from conventions past. We will watch the 1956 Kennedy-Kefauver vice-presidential race; we'll see Ronald Reagan moving the 1976 convention with a concession speech that foreshadowed his triumph four years later; we'll hear Harry Truman's 1948 promise to "win this election and make the Republicans like it!" Then we'll leave the gloriously colorful black-and-white past and head for the brightly colored convention hall, hoping...