Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ACCIDENT that the dominant cultural medium in the United States is television. To reinforce the box-like world view gained from hours in front of the tube we have surrounded ourselves with television analogues. Reality has become a metaphor for a 19-inch screen. More than anything else, it is from the windows of a car that we see the world, and the world we see is a General Motors version of Stagecoach or The Streets of San Francisco...
Though the 1980 election is still eleven months away, Republican Candidate Ronald Reagan says he is already spending so much time traveling that he no longer feels that he just gets on airplanes: "I wear them." That view is shared by TIME's National Political Correspondent, John Stacks, who has a mandate to range far and frequently to meet candidates and test political moods. In the past two months, Stacks has done extensive firsthand reporting on Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, California Governor Jerry Brown, Texas Republican George Bush and Reagan. He and Los Angeles Correspondent Joseph Kane collaborated...
...ayatullahs and the leftist secular forces were using the embassy assault as a pretext for pushing the country sharply to the left. The small but well-organized Tudeh (Communist) Party has been held in check by Khomeini, who denounces the Communists fervently, if redundantly, as "godless atheists." The prevailing view in Washington is that the extreme leftists will continue to ride the Khomeini whirlwind as they gain key positions in the ruling 15-man Revolutionary Council, and will eventually try to brush Khomeini aside in a final grab for power...
Marley combines his advocacy of violence with a warning that the eleventh hour approaches for his people, that each year fewer blacks object to their oppression. Politically, Marley's album will probably have a considerable effect in Jamaica. Though many in the U.S. view him as merely a talented composer, Marley is considered a leader by most Jamaicans and a prophet by many...
...conservative Justice William Clark because they did not trust him. The antagonism between Bird and Clark reached the point where the chief justice refused to speak to either him or his clerks. More important, the testimony indicated that the court's procedures were slow, cumbersome, even archaic. That view was echoed by Robert Thompson, a former California appeals court justice, who told TIME Correspondent Edward J. Boyer that the court was taking on too many cases for review...