Word: watching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American public, Kalb said, is largely bored by in-depth news analyses although it criticizes superficial reporting. "Documentaries are done--but you don't watch them. The very same people who complain about...superficial reporting are the very ones who are not watching the documentaries when they come...
Cambridge had already helped its sister city in several ways, said Ryan. "I think lives have been saved... It's an uphill battle." Advocates of the sister city program say the fact that American officials watch the fate of San Jose las Flores helps protect...
...downtown Tokyo, people gathered outside the walled and moated Imperial Palace to watch and pray. Tens of thousands lined up to sign visitors' books at the main palace gate and elsewhere throughout the country. Autumn festivals, including Tokyo's Grand Ginza extravaganza, were canceled, as was the 100th-anniversary celebration of the daily Asahi Shimbun. Said Mitsu Fujisawa, 112, believed to be the oldest person in Japan: "I have worshiped His Majesty for a long time. I hope he will recover and live longer than I have...
...perhaps the last real amateurs in the field are those who watch, the ones who have not spent four years pumping iron or hype. They are the ones who enjoy the Amateur's Games, the behind-the-scenes, behind-the-screen games that are made not for TV but V.T. (as in "visceral thrill"): the Olympic Games for those who want to play at being kids again. They begin by sneaking around the back of the Olympic stadium just before the opening ceremonies, to get close-ups of the athletes, out of line and out of synch, as they prepare...
...South Korea won its first gold. Incongruous shouts went up at every venue. The press-row televisions were all dialed to Greco-Roman wrestling. At a minor league scoreboard in the press center, where a medal count is kept by hand, a bustle of Koreans hurried over just to watch the tiny gold disk go up for Kim Young-Nam. They sighed...