Word: stationers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were ready to go Saturday afternoon, But the state's only commercial VHF station, Channel 9, had closed for the weekend. New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, a Bush supporter, drove to Manchester to meet with the station manager, his friend; within hours Bush's ads were flickering across TV screens. From Saturday afternoon until the polls closed, the ad ran more than 40 times in the state. It was too late for Dole to come up with a reply...
...showdown had all the breathless drama that readers of the tabloid New York $ Post (circ. 480,000) have come to expect. Australian-born Media Baron Rupert Murdoch, selling the Post to comply with a federal ban on owning a newspaper and broadcast station in the same city, had threatened to shut down the paper unless unions agreed to $24 million in cost reductions. Murdoch said he needed the cuts to complete the sale of the paper to New York Real Estate Developer Peter Kalikow for $37 million...
...movies) and spend $9.2 million to renovate those that become nonprofit playhouses. (A new hotel and merchandise mart are also envisioned for the same stretch of 42nd Street.) Finally, Klein and company will spend $81.8 million to spruce up the surrounding sidewalks and overhaul the purgatorial Times Square subway station. "We can create the most extraordinary buildings in the city and create a sense of place there," says Johnson. "It's better to do it all in one spot than plop, plop, plop buildings all over Times Square. I should think it will be more important than Rockefeller Center." Adds...
COCKSUCKER Blues contains few moments of the Stones talking to the camera. Generally we are overhearing what they say, and usually it's rubbish: Mick, for example, ordering a fruit plate from room service, bitching about the heat in a station wagon, or mumbling nonsense while slipping into his psychedelic stage costume. A significant part of the soundtrack is just ambient sound, whether it be a radio or TV playing in the background or just someone mumbling behind the camera. Frank entirely avoids the obviously glamorous option of playing loud Stones music through the entire film, which would effectively have...
...loved jazz, but I could not listen because you were not allowed. If they caught you listening to a foreign radio station--there was no jazz in Germany--they would kill you. So if you wanted to listen, you had to listen with headphones," Kluncker says...