Word: swaying
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Visually interesting footage still carries editorial weight that can sway news judgment. Example: one night last week, NBC Producer Robert Mulholland rejected a plane-crash story with the comment, "No flames in the film. Too quiet." But generally, the networks have matured since the days when "Shoot bloody" was the watchword of Viet Nam War coverage, and they are constantly evaluating their own performance. Last week NBC News President Reuven Frank reminded his staff in a memo that "misleading practice" has been forbidden for years and noted, "I get as weary of being called on to be Caesar...
Blare of Music. A white dove of peace chirps briefly, but flies off as a black widow spider of a model plane wings its way with a searching deliberateness across the rear-stage curtain. We see the bomber's victims-to-be, other grey-lady puppets. They sway and huddle together in mute terror. We feel their pain all the more acutely because, like wounded animals, they cannot articulate it. Think of Picasso's Guernica unfolding in slow motion and you have the image of these women dying. The evening ends with a jolly blare of music...
...stucco complex, that was most devastated. Three of the buildings were either demolished or toppled, burying patients-many of them elderly men-in the rubble. Although confined to a wheelchair with a back injury, Bob Dutton said he instantly "learned to walk" as his third-floor room began to sway. "I jumped for the door, and when I reached the hall and turned to look back, there was nothing there -just wide-open space." There were at least 44 dead. But the round-the-clock work of emergency crews paid off, as they delicately carved the wreckage into small chunks...
Maybe the Laos invasion has brought the antiwar movement back to life. Maybe, Peace Action Coalition wants mass demonstrations in Washington on April 24 while other groups have announced militant actions on Mayday. It can certainly not be expected that mass demonstrations will sway foreign policy by voicing public outrage; rather, this spring the antiwar movement must clearly indicate that it is physically and unalterably opposed to those men and institutions who continue to wage war in Asia...