Word: syncing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question is: How did the machinery for identifying potential Presidents, nominating candidates and choosing winners come to be so seriously out of sync with the modern requirements of the office? Compare the political leadership we are producing in this literate democratic society of some 230 million people with the leadership of the Thirteen Colonies in the late 18th century. For all its familiarity, the point is still a painful one. From 3 million people living on the edge of a wilderness: Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Franklin, the Adamses. (Would these men have survived the scrutiny of a Mike Wallace...
...economies while protecting their domestic markets from cheap imports. In Spain, for instance, the peseta fell to a historic low against the dollar last week, and the new Socialist government is expected to let it continue falling. The U.S. will suffer even more if its economy gets out of sync with the rest of the world. Should business and consumer spending pick up quickly in the U.S., imports would accelerate while foreign customers remained too strapped to buy more U.S.-made goods...
Television has developed an elaborate jargon that has possibilities as slang. Voiceover, segue, intro and out of sync have been part of the more general language for a long time. Now there is the out-tro, the stand-up spiel at the end of a news reporter's segment. A vividly cynical new item of TV news jargon is bang-bang, meaning the kind of film coverage that TV reporters must have in order to get their reports from El Salvador or the Middle East onto the evening news...
...Steve plays a hapless sheet-music vendor who wants to live in a world "where the songs come true." Co-star Bernadette Peters, 31, Steve's oft reported main squeeze offstage, provides the love interest. With Depression-era recordings backing them on the soundtrack, the dapper duo lip-sync their way through 15 songs and six lavish production numbers. As for the dancing, says Peters: "At least I got to use my own feet...
...quite whistling in the dark. But the high spirits at 30,000 ft. as Air Force One carried Ronald Reagan and his top aides away from a balmy vacation in the West and back toward the duties of running the Government from Washington seemed out of sync with the stiff challenges ahead. Chief of Staff James Baker turned his Texas tenor loose on country music that only he could hear through his earphones. Communications Adviser David Gergen, fresh from an outing in the Tetons, could not resist the beat of the Supremes. He grabbed the hands of Margaret Tutwiler, Baker...