Word: concoction
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...fine distinctions of the law, which aims to make a precise science out of the imprecise art of reading a defendant's heart and mind. In the end, the verdicts will hinge largely on the jurors' reactions to the brothers' graphic stories of parental abuse. Did the young men concoct the details to mask their desire to dip freely into their family's $14 million estate -- shrunken by spending binges, attorneys' fees and other costs to $800,000 -- without the interference of their controlling parents? Or were the comfortable years the brothers spent in Princeton, N.J., an elaborate...
...with a very cool logo, is to go on the air next March with a vague, general-entertainment mandate and a lot of live emcees who will -- this is the New Age, 21st century part -- read viewers' faxed messages on the air. Like ESPN with ESPN2, NBC will concoct a quasi- clone of its existing cable channel CNBC; last week the network named the amusingly ferocious Republican media genius Roger Ailes both to run CNBC and $ to create a new all-talk channel, to be called, unfortunately, America's Talking...
...also ushered in some drug novelties. Since the turn of the decade, gamma hydroxy butyrate, known as GHB, has been used illegally in the body-building community to reduce fat. Recently, however, youths have begun to abuse the drug to achieve a trancelike state. In New York City kids concoct a "Max" cocktail by dissolving GHB in water, then mixing in amphetamines. A different mix resulted in several overdoses in the Atlanta area in the past few months. Manhattan's hard-core sex community has also turned on to "Special K," or Cat Valium, an anesthetic that numbs the body...
...been unable to find evidence linking the sheik to the Trade Center bombing. But when he traveled around the U.S. in March, the bureau kept such a close eye on him that the agents felt they had to concoct a reason for the surveillance: they told the sheik that they were there to protect...
Stations hardly need a true-life drama, however, to concoct a bogus news tie-in. Last week's Academy of Country Music Awards on NBC gave Atlanta's WXIA-TV a chance to interview singers Travis Tritt and Doug Stone on the urgent subject of "why country music is so popular." New York's WABC-TV used a Kathie Lee Gifford special on motherhood as the pretext for a feature on her TV partner Regis Philbin's exercise regimen...