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...world of Frederic Cassidy, ABC is anything but simple. Cassidy, 77, demonstrated that last week when Belknap/Harvard University Press published the first volume (A-C) of his unique Dictionary of American Regional English, its 1,056 pages bulging with bits of vernacular from A, as in a-coming, to czezski, the word around old Chicago for a Czech or Bohemian (also butchsky). In its scope and thoroughness, Cassidy's dictionary is unmatched as a kind of refuge for colloquialisms threatened with extinction, largely by the homogenizing influence of television...
After the stint at ABC, Cohen says he worked as a producer on various projects until he landed...
Although he originally wanted to be "a player in the arena, not a fan at the 50-yard line," getting a job at ABC while out of work changed Cohen's mind...
Cohen began his career in politics during the late '60s when he was very involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement. And as an intern at ABC, he had some connections to the television news industry...
Television's sultan of splutter, ABC's Sam Donaldson, walked out of the East Room and, as usual, was still talking. "The fire's gone out," he boomed, his words cutting through the noise and confusion of the mass exodus from Ronald Reagan's first news conference in three months...