Word: mismatched
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Maybe a central problem, for Chancellor as for Moyers, is that illustrated commentary blurs the distinction between news and opinion. The difficulty is television's strange mismatch of eye and ear: the ear often skeptically disputes what it is told, but the eye accepts as reality the picture before it. Words that might seem bland on an Op-Ed page can take on unexpected and unpredictable force when matched with pictures. Perhaps this is why, in a libel case in Cleveland, a federal judge refused to admit the typed transcript of a broadcast as evidence, ruling that the jury...
...Jack Marnaby. "I think Wellesley is inexperienced compared to us," he said during yesterday's match. None of the players from Wellesley competed in high school, while the Crimson's line-up is filled with former top-ranked prep schoolers... In a contest that should be less of a mismatch, the Harvard J.V.'s will play this same Wellesley team on Monday...
...entrance of the third member of this curious mismatch, a woman named Rosie (Claudia Silver), perhaps inevitably banks some of the flames that have been building, despite Moore's somewhat strained attempt at creating a melodramatic entrance. Silver carries herself with an appropriate semi-toughness, but the part offers a little less room for maneuver than do the others, a little less sense of transcending the ordinary. There's only so much Silver can do with the almost stock character of a supposedly worldly-wise girl with a heart of gold...
When the two fighters stroll into the center of the 20 foot square ring, the fight will quickly become a mismatch. Thomas Hearns will destroy Sugar Ray Leonard...
Call it a blowout, a humiliation, or a mismatch. Which ever you prefer, the Harvard varsity water polo team thoroughly dominated a hapless squad from Boston University last night at Blodgett Pool en route to a 30-7 victory...