Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Using marijuana is . . . like what happens when a person with fuzzy vision puts on glasses. Listening to a familiar piece of music, such as a Bach orchestral suite, the mind is newly conscious of the bass line; listening to a conversation, the mind is more aware of the nuances of each voice...
...eccentrics. This year's presidential sweepstakes is no exception, according to Weeks. George Bush and Michael Dukakis, he believes, are Milquetoasts. Weeks is convinced that demonstrable eccentricity should be a required trait for America's leaders in order to keep them happy, creative and sane. "America needs idealism, vision and humor in the White House," he urges. "A real eccentric would have all those qualities in abundance. We need another genuine oddball in the White House...
...network exemplifies this vision more than CNN, whose service is currently available in 58 countries. When President Reagan arrives in Moscow this week to meet with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, CNN will provide a special broadcast on a low-power UHF channel available to most Muscovites. The cable network will soon begin selling a Spanish-language news program to broadcasters in several countries in Latin America...
...News. "Anything that we sell for overseas is just gravy." An increase in the number of communications satellites and the relaxation of strict state regulation of TV in many countries have encouraged the growth of new broadcast and cable channels. ABC has signed a deal with Dublin-based Anglo-Vision to distribute its news shows to hotels in 17 European countries. And the television version of USA Today, set to make its debut in September, has already been sold to broadcasters in Australia, the Philippines and Argentina...
...search for a fresh vision is most evident in the Junior League, that onetime bastion of society ladies that has gradually emerged as a powerful force for social change. At its annual meeting three weeks ago in Chicago, some 900 delegates voted to standardize admissions procedures, pulling down, in effect, some of the blood-test barriers that for years preserved the league as a high Wasp domain. The vote, said incoming President Maridel Moulton, "will signal to the world that we really are an organization that wishes to be open to any woman who wants to make a commitment...