Word: transcripts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pollock said the black box and cockpit voice recorder from the McDonnell Douglas MD-80, an updated version of the DC-9, had been recovered and were sent to Washington for analysis in NTSB laboratories. It would be 60 days before a transcript is released, he said...
...live television; then the committees complain that America has been captivated by a witness's manner instead of concentrating on his words and deeds. Can't have it both ways. Turn an inquiry into a spectacle and you cannot protest that the audience is insufficiently attentive to the transcript. The Iran-contra committees could have modestly pursued their business off-camera, as did the Tower commission. No secrecy necessary -- the entire record could have been made public at the close of the investigation. Then there would have been no Ollie -- only Colonel North, the slightly disreputable, if not discredited, "switching...
Carpenter's case is not unusual. Often the Harvard coaches come across a promising hockey player who just doesn't have the kind of transcript that qualifies him for Harvard. To these athletes, the Harvard coaches--as hard as it is--just...
...with the result that readers who might love the novel may be driven away. No one but members of creative-writing programs or departments of literature should sit still for another recitative of postmodernism's bag of tricks. The text, you see, is the generator of life, not its transcript; the only real plot that stories convey is the process of their telling. Or, as Nathan writes in a letter to Henry, "We are all the invention of each other, everybody a conjuration conjuring up everyone else. We are all each other's authors." Or, as Maria observes, "I know...
Nevertheless, the participants contend, the program contributes importantly to the assassination record. "I defy anyone who is familiar with the Kennedy assassination," says Bugliosi, "to look at the 18 hours of tape or examine the trial transcript and say that the gut issues of the case were not addressed or were treated cosmetically." Even for casual observers raised on Perry Mason, On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald provides a fascinating lesson in history and the law. And, not incidentally, TV's best courtroom drama ever...