Word: static
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...space is allotted to its graphics and photographs, a fact which in itself is not bad. But then USA Today's photographs for the most part don't duplicate the best photojournalism of, say, the old Life magazine, but rather the worst of the new Life: big, splashy, static color images that don't say much. The September 6 issue's front page features double column pictures of three people who knew a passenger on the downed Korean jet. "How the hell can you condone attacking a civilian jet?" asks Dennis Levesque. USA Today seems to believe that...
...static was heavy. The words that sounded above the crackle were an unfamiliar Russian military-aviation jargon. The pilots' voices were unemotional, as if they were reporting to their ground controllers on the progress of the most routine training exercise. All of which made the tape more eloquently horrifying when it was played in excerpt for a national television audience by President Reagan and in full for the United Nations Security Council by U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. In the translation, the pilot of the Soviet Sukhoi-15 interceptor who fired the missiles that blasted Korean Air Lines Flight...
Republicans may hope to gain the most, since many politically conservative states such as Idaho, Utah and Wyoming are growing fastest, while traditionally more liberal states (Massachusetts, New York) seem to have static or diminishing populations. On the other hand, the political tilt of some of the biggest boom states-California, Texas, Florida-could be leftward: the states' predominantly Democratic Hispanic populations are growing especially fast and it seems likely that in elections hence, a greater proportion of Hispanic Americans will vote. Hispanics, blacks and Asian Americans together will constitute a larger fraction of the country's population...
...part series that he wrote and narrated for the BBC in 1969. When Civilisation first appeared in England, the reviews were respectful, on the whole, but tepid. Among art historians, there was a good deal of scorn for its generalizations. Many television people thought it an oldfashioned, static affair, hobbled by Clark's unbudgeable penchant for writing scripts that were really slide lectures, with the narrator too much in view-"I am standing in front of the Cathedral of X, which you cannot see because I am standing in front of it." It was also felt that Clark...
...parity is not a static condition; it is dynamic," we will go on as we have for the past 38 years playing catchup, until ultimately, inevitably, by accident or design, the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. blows the earth to smithereens...