Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...reaction to the embargo in the farm states and tapped her own agriculture sources. Patricia Delaney reported on the hectic commodities trading at the Chicago Board of Trade, while David Jackson interviewed experts on the gasohol program. Barry Hillenbrand, who had been following Ted Kennedy's efforts to explain his candidacy to Iowa's voters, broke away to join Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland as he tried to explain the Administration's grain-sales policy to the state's farmers. During his 2½ years in the bureau, Hillenbrand, previously a foreign correspondent, has reported many agriculture...
...jobs because their work is not worth the minimum wage. Williams calculates that this year's 7% increase in the minimum wage will cause unemployment among low-skilled black teen-agers to rise from 35% to at least 40%. He sees evidence all around: "How else do you explain the massive change from waiter service to self-service in restaurants? How else do you explain the absence of ushers in movies and youngsters at supermarkets to take your bags to the car? We have cut the bottom rungs off the economic ladder, and the consequence is that...
...That may explain the Brzezinski lapse. It didn't help when Executive Editor Ben Bradlee (who is married to Quinn) had to run a box saying it wasn't true that Brzezinski had unzipped his fly in front of a female reporter. Quinn had written this on the basis of a vague recollection, without bothering to recheck. The Charlotte Observer was outraged: "Such errors raise questions about the newspaper's motives as well as its competence." The Post felt obliged to run a letter from nine former members of Brzezinski's staff disputing Quinn...
...Lisa, Marc and Trini, who are forever leaving their Tinkertoy clubhouse for short, filmed sorties to labs, beaches and races-a total of 100 trips in 65 shows. At the start of each episode, Marc announces, "Science is fun," and then tries to prove it. Cartoons are shown to explain how things work, and celebrity guests occasionally drop by to take part in the action: Tennis Pro Arthur Ashe, for example, hits a serve timed by radar, and Actor Gene Wilder illustrates communication by talking to a dog. The episodes end with a minimystery film starring three young detectives, known...
...grasp pictures, but yawned at lengthy explanations. 3-2-1 Contact thus keeps the film rolling and dialogue fast paced. The inevitable result: few detailed discussions of scientific theories or principles. National Frisbee Champion Krae Van Sickle, for instance, likens the spinning disc to a gyroscope, but fails to explain what a gyroscope is, or how it works. The show rushes on to a glider sailing through the Colorado skies. It is all pleasant viewing, but does it really teach science? Probably not, in any systematic sense, as CTW admits. Says Research Director Chen: "This is a show focused...