Word: tape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couple of examples will suffice. The magazine brought homophobia to a new and vicious low by slipping into a gay students' meeting with a tape recorder and then printing a list of the students who attended. Two years ago, in what can now be seen as a foreshadowing of their Yom Kippur issue, the Review printed a caricature of Dartmouth's President James O. Freedman as Hitler, complete with mustache and stiff-arm salute...
...bite, where attention spans are conditioned by the quick democracy of the remote control, The Saddam Show was barely worthy of public-access cable, much less prime-time TV. It was no surprise that the major networks ran only brief excerpts, while CNN relegated its full airing of the tape to 1 a.m. Eastern time. "Nobody who understands modern television," said an American intelligence analyst, "would deliver such a tape...
...ratings of any series in PBS history: a score of 9.0 in Nielsen's 24 major markets, equal to 14 million viewers, more than quadruple the public network's usual prime-time audience. Video stores, meanwhile, reported a burst in sales of blank cassettes to people who wanted to tape the episodes...
...raved Carolyn Randolph, a retired schoolteacher in Livermore, Calif. "But I'm learning so much." Others regarded the show in more personal terms. One New York City woman unearthed an old photo of her great-grandfather, a colonel in the Union Army, and plans to scrutinize the series on tape to try to spot...
...brightest spot of all was the come-from-behind performance of junior Spencer Punter. At the two-mile mark, Punter attacked the rocky terrain, moving from 22nd to third before reaching the tape...