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...relative lack of media response in the first week of the sit-in. That changed with the visits of high-profile labor leaders and politicians, and a sense on the part of journalists that the occupation was going to last. Soon, the story was everywhere, and Times opinion columnist Bob Herbert dedicated two whole columns to the topic. “Looking at it now, it looks like wall-to-wall media,” says McKean. “But we worked for every inch...
...Bob and Bill W., as Alcoholics Anonymous members know them, promised to keep each other sober, following Bill W.'s strategy: a simple set of principles--later refined into 12 steps--that would become the foundation of America's self-help culture. Alcoholics, he said, must admit they are powerless over their addiction. They must make amends to all those they have harmed. And they must submit to God--however they define the deity...
...advice did not immediately take. Dr. Bob went to Atlantic City, N.J., for a convention; several days later, he showed up at the Akron train station, smashed. On June 10, the dried-out but still jittery doctor was due in surgery. That morning, Bill W. gave Dr. Bob a bottle of beer--to steady his scalpel hand. The operation was a success. The beer was Dr. Bob's last. And the two men pledged that day to work to bring Bill W.'s principles to other alcoholics, one day at a time. --By James Poniewozik
...thought our [first-line kids] played real well,” Dartmouth coach Bob Gaudet said. “I wasn’t concerned about the match...
...have more splintering? IS there anything like 'straining at the door panel?'" asks Lawrence Kasdan. His sound designer, Bob Grieve, suggests that the music is too loud; the audience won't catch the kind of maple-busting noise Kasdan is looking for. Kasdan won't have it. That's because he knows that horror isn't so much shot as constructed. Even the most artful scared face looks stupid on the big screen if the computer-generated monster is cheesy, the sound effects flat, the silences too short or the cuts too slow. So compared with the rush of filming...