Word: opera
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...news organizations and their business-oriented owners. Corporate-media interactions always raise questions of bias, such as when Time magazine (owned by Time Warner) hyped the movie "Twister" and other, similarly mediocre Warner Brothers movies on its front cover. We expect that when a character in a daytime soap opera uses a well-known product, it might be a product that is advertised on the network...
...each week a massive audience witnessed, live, a parade of people trying to use their heads to strike it rich. Question quickly spawned a number of instant folk heros and heroines: the New York City cop who had brushed up his Shakespeare ($16,000); the shoemaker opera buff ($32,000); the young psychologist named Joyce Brothers whose specialty was prizefighting...
...Opera House: Art movies in Shepherdstown? You bet your Bergman, baby...
...Year's Eve flight with the head of the FAA. Julie Grace of our Chicago bureau spent the evening with a family of Y2K worriers in Ohio. Denver bureau chief Richard Woodbury watched Norad even as Norad watched the skies. Meanwhile, other correspondents followed sun worshippers in India, opera lovers in Egypt and nervous brides in Vegas...