Word: tele
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sparse plot, downright anemic; yet O'Morrison fleshes it out with the wondrous detail of bygone commonplaces. In this household, light comes from kerosene, refrigeration from an iceman, fruits and vegetables are preserved and the tele phone and vacuum cleaner are wild rumors. It is a simpler world but not a qui eter one. The women fuss and explode over trifles, then sing together in tranquilizing harmony...
...orchestras and operas need to flourish in the future. "In the long range," says the Met's executive director, Anthony Bliss, "television will become important to our survival." The benefits go both ways: the Met's opening was, for its part, a stirring and resonant contribution to tele vision...
...MSOs are being shaken up by mergers prompted by the industry's growth. General Electric Cable, a subsidiary of GE, is about to acquire Cox Broadcasting for roughly $560 million if shareholders and the FCC approve. The merge would create the third biggest MSO, with 745,000 subscribers. Tele-Communications, Inc. (700,000 subscribers) would be pushed down to fourth, and Warner (620,000 subscribers) to fifth. Times-Mirror Corp., the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, has just bought Communications Properties Inc. for $128 million. Consequently, Times-Mirror has jumped from 26th to sixth biggest...
...area, the interests of the West and the lives of your people." The Secretary's point was rejected and the session ended in deadlock. Vance left the meeting and headed straight to the U.S. consulate to return a call from Jimmy Carter that had come in on the secure tele phone. After a brief discussion about how the negotiations were going, Carter said: "I called to ask you to come back because I've got something I want you here for." The President, of course, was referring to the dramatic developments in U.S.-Chinese relations. Because it now seemed...
...long and so power fully in the writer's imagination that it overwhelms the reader. Like Tolkien's other books, The Silmarillion presents a doomed but heroic view of creation that may be one of the reasons why a generation growing up on the thin gruel of tele vision drama, and the beardless cynicism of Mad magazine, first found J.R.R. Tol kien so rich and wonderful. Says proud Fëanor, explaining why he will not give up to the Valar the jewels he worked so hard to craft: "For the less even as for the greater there...