Word: scattergun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...followed by the surreal comedy The Knack (1965). He quickly became the hottest new director around; his trick-camera, quick-cut editing had a breezy spontaneity that spoke for the swinging London of the '60s. With the artistic freedom that success can buy, Lester then turned his comedic scattergun to more serious and deeply felt purpose. Starting in 1967 he made one troubling social satire about modern materialists (Petulia) and two savage antiwar polemics (How I Won the War and The Bed-Sitting Room). All three fizzled at the box office, and by 1969 Lester found himself effectively...
Though health information sometimes is presented badly and tends to err on the side of overoptimism, no useful purpose is served by the Blue Cross scattergun blast. The fact is that the quality of health information provided by the lay media has improved over a quarter-century at least as much as health care has. At any rate, whether health information is accepted or retained depends less on the source than on whether the audience is motivated to be receptive...
Strategic Momentum. E.D.F. had its scattergun start on Long Island in 1967. In its first case, a fiery lawyer named Victor J. Yannacone Jr. went to court to stop the Suffolk County mosquito control commission from dousing marshlands with DDT. Rather than alleging personal damages, he sued in the name of all the people of the U.S. and "generations yet unborn." Even though the court ducked the issue and declared it a problem for the state legislature, the mosquito commission was sufficiently impressed by expert testimony presented in court to quit using...