Word: reruns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Michael J. Arlen '52 wrote in his book The Living-Room War (which coined the common phrase) that television coverage of Vietnam "all sounded very safe and institutional, and rather like a rerun." Arlen chronicled a history of rigged enemy casualty figures, over-statements about the effectiveness of "search-and-destroy missions" and air raids, and lies by senior administration officials about the need for more troops. All the while, this information went unquestioned by TV news. The military's war had become the media...
...just rerun the originals? Solt's answer is that their pacing is too languid for modern tastes, which is probably true but also beside the point. Early TV was shot live, and a considerable part of its charm -- witness The Honeymooners -- was its ramshackle unpredictability. The Very Best solidly documents Sullivan's skill as a talent scout but gives little sense of the show's herky-jerky rhythm and calculated structure -- one novelty act, two comic spots and so on -- or of its host's weird, looming omnipresence. Solt's deconstruction is a pleasant memory tickler. It could have been...
...collects every last cent pledged by allies, that amount is grossly insufficient, particularly from two such economic powerhouses as Germany and Japan. Moreover, few allies have pledged any money beyond Jan. 1 (to be fair, most have not yet been asked). So U.S. officials will soon have to rerun the September begging trip that was dubbed Operation Tin Cup. But Bonn is complaining about the high costs of German unification, and the Japanese Finance Ministry is grumbling about the nation's heavy debt. The U.S. Administration has some fancy arm twisting to do -- and if it fails, some even fancier...
...week's telecast. A companion book is selling briskly (Knopf; $50), and a nine-volume set of videocassettes is being offered by TIME-LIFE Video ($188.82). More than 7,000 schools and libraries have queried PBS about acquiring the cassettes and accompanying teaching materials. PBS has already scheduled a rerun for January...
...fighting for the right of his cohort to lead China. He was not about to give up that right to a bunch of college students," MacFarquhar says. "Deng Xiaoping thought this was potentially a rerun of the Red Guard menace of the Cultural Revolution...