Word: tv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week the long-awaited corporate marriage finally took place. The result: Time Warner Inc., the world's largest information and entertainment company. The new giant, with 35,000 employees and $10 billion in revenues this year, will be a global contender in the fields of magazines, books, music, movies, TV programs and cable TV...
First there are the blond-haired good looks: striking but somehow wholesome, more high school prom queen than Hollywood glamour puss. Then there's the rich, honeyed voice: husky and authoritative, but free of the severe tone affected by some females in TV news. As a reader of the news, she is masterly: businesslike but warm, her eyes now wide with the drama of the day, now crinkling ever so slightly with concern. Diane Sawyer doesn't just deliver the news, she performs...
...Morning News. As a member of the formidable 60 Minutes team since 1984, she has traveled from the garbage mounds of Cairo to the heart of the AIDS plague in Uganda, profiled the likes of Corazon Aquino and James Michener, and given then candidate George Bush perhaps his toughest TV grilling on the Iran-contra scandal. If she never seemed an indispensable cog in the powerful engine that is 60 Minutes, she was no Tinkertoy either...
...reporter at home to amend her earlier list of favorite reading: add Doctorow's Billy Bathgate and Mann's Tonio Kroger to a shelf that already features Flaubert, Henry James and John Fowles.) In earnest, carefully molded sentences, she strives to dispel the notion that she is strictly a TV creation. "I really love what you learn every day in the business," she says. "I love the breathtaking way we walk into people's lives and ask them anything we want and then leave. For a moment you have available to you the whole universe of a person's life...
...charging that the schools had become hotbeds of political unrest, not only barred some 330,000 elementary and secondary school children and 17,000 university students from attending courses but even outlawed private classes and kindergarten. Says Elham, a West Bank English teacher: "My children do nothing except watch TV or play cards...