Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...appalled by the Washington Post-Newsweek broadcast group's statement that "controversial issues should be dealt with in our news and public affairs program" in response to Mobil's advocacy commercials. This is surely restriction of expression by the media. They wish to impose their censorship on a company (Mobil) that wishes to defend itself...
...exuberant, and he largely succeeded. Afraid of making a mistake that "might blow our momentum," he said as little as possible. Even so, he came close to one of those dread bloopers when he described Social Security, a sacrosanct subject if there ever was one, as "largely a welfare program." But then he hastily made clear that he was really talking only about supplementary benefits like Medicare-not Social Security pensions...
...Britain's Robin Cousins, 22, who brought to Placid the elegant and fluid style that had won him his first European championship several weeks earlier. But even he did not skate with his usual relaxed confidence. He faltered on one of the triple jumps in his undemanding program; his gold medal was a triumph of style over substance...
...silver went to East Germany's Jan Hoffmann, who made no mistakes in his athletic free-skating program but left the overall impression of an expertly twirling oak tree. Many of the figure skaters, in fact, seemed to be phoning in their performances from Albany. That was not so of Americans David Santee, 22, who had made a fetish out of the movie boxer Rocky, and tiny Scott Hamilton, 21, who ricocheted around the arena like an exuberant puppy. The two gave the men's competition badly needed shots of enthusiasm; they placed fourth and fifth...
...corset over a lace shirt. On his right hand there is a boxing glove. He claims, in the rich, ripe tones of yesteryear's provincial matinee idol, that he was about to do his imitation of Queen Victoria, but that he has forgotten what she looks like. The program's ever harassed star and manager, who just happens to be a very green, very agreeable frog, tells his guest that though he loves the many wild characters the performer is capable of impersonating, on this show it is quite all right to "just relax and be yourself...