Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chew and the other detainees were subjected to intensive and exhaustive questioning, sometimes lasting up to 72 hours at a time. During breaks between periods of questioning, they were held in solitary confinement under continuous fluorescent lighting. The state-owned television station later broadcast deceptively edited videotapes which claimed to show the detainees "confessing" to a Marxist plot against the government...
...competition among eight or ten networks (both broadcast and cable) of nearly equal size. More radical transformations may be in store. Tom Winner, executive vice president and media director for Campbell-Mithun-Esty advertising, predicts that the networks "will ultimately be program services selling product to the highest bidder" -- station groups, cable, home video or satellite companies...
...Mafia presence. And sure enough, a disreputable little man is soon slipping her a mysterious packet. Dope? Money for laundering? No, jokes. As it turns out, terrible jokes. Jokes that produce a distillation of pure flop sweat when she tries them out at a comedy club called the Gas Station, where beginning comics mostly improvise their own humiliations. For Lilah is a bored New Jersey housewife who has been told all her life that she is a funny lady and dreams of public confirmation of that status. Steve Gold (Tom Hanks) is a sort of drug-free Lenny Bruce, brilliantly...
Scott has problems both in the station and on the streets. One of his superior officers has called him a "stupid nigger" in front of fellow officers. On one occasion the officer asked someone he was arresting, "Do you want this nigger to see you crying?" Sometimes citizens who call for help will rebuff Scott and ask for a white officer -- a request the department denies...
...Sleds thought their troubles would be financial, not racial. Together they make $16,000 a year -- less than Melrose Park's $22,000 median family income. Donald operates an elevator in a downtown bank. Stephanie, 35, works the midnight shift as a cashier in a filling station...