Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper as a whole is a very serious journalistic enterprise. In its first issue, it declared that it sought to fill Boston's "journalistic vacuum" by offering an alternative to the "unimaginative reporting" typical of Boston's three daily papers. These papers, The Phoenix noted, rely heavily on wire-service copy, even for Boston-related articles, and seem to regard a reporter assigned to Somerville as a "foreign correspondent...
...public's right to know." The American Civil Liberties Union and the American Society of Newspaper Editors, among others, objected on the same grounds. Unfazed, Fasi departed on a worldwide good-will tour, refusing interviews to Associated Press reporters along the way, because the Bulletin subscribes to that wire service. "I was elected to represent all of the people in the community," says Fasi, "not just the chairman of the board or the editor of the Star-Bulletin...
Otherwise heavily censored, the newspapers carry great numbers of letters from frustrated readers. One complained that there were no electric heaters to be bought in Prague. A smoker lamented that he could buy pipes but not pipe cleaners, which after all are "just a piece of wire with some rough string wound around it." Another reader beefed because the only shoelaces on sale were so coarse and long that they were suitable only "for elephant boots." Still another wondered if the government bureaucracy could not cut back on its quintuplicate forms so that the toilet paper shortage could be alleviated...
...yard runs. In the latter race. Shaw was in a seemingly hopeless fifth place with less than a lap remaining, but recovered to pass two runners with about 70 yards left. He went on to nip B.C.'s Dave Walsh and Northeastern's Frank Kelly at the wire in a time...
...film. Stills of the treaty ceremonies are intercut with very fast shots of factories while some important voice of the period urges the Indians to "accept the spirit of the American people." His speech is drowned out by machine sounds and there follow superimpositions of factories and barbed wire, of the trains that shuttled plains tribes to marshland, over close-ups of aged Indian faces. One man appears to be dying, or trying to sleep, turning his head back and forth over the industrialized landscape; the image exudes an eery sense of ancestors' graves plowed under, of the young dead...