Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said, "You hiccup in Beirut, and it's on the living room screen in Keokuk, Iowa. That fundamentally changes the audience for news...
...association in cities that express an interest and have suitable facilities. Between them, ESPN and Prime Ticket, cable sports networks, air 25 tournaments on the tour, and they reputedly pay the A.V.P. handsomely for the rights to do so. Armato thinks volleyball does well on the small screen because it features "a lot of action, the beach and a lot of tanned, great-looking people." Formerly a big hit only between San Diego and Sorrento Beach, north of Los Angeles, the tournaments are currently attracting crowds that average 25,000 at waterside sites in Atlantic City, Chicago and Cleveland. A.V.P...
...exactly, though the distinction eludes Wired. Professionally, Belushi was a gifted TV sketch artist who found the wide-screen format confining. Personally, he was a middle-class white kid with an anarchic urge to play the cool black jazzman -- so he partied and bullied and ODed just like his heroes. Early death was only the last piece of the legend this blues brother created for himself. In the film's one good laugh, a physician elicits Belushi's pharmaceutical history and then asks, deadpan, "Next of kin?" Belushi was delivered to his humongous family of fans, who mourned a talent...
...different books -- a new Ryan tale, a World War II naval adventure and a half-completed novel called Without Remorse, about a moralistic CIA assassin named Clark. Clancy's rationale for his new spate of writing: "You just can't sit at the computer and stare at the blank screen...
...Screen dreams are strangest and strongest when they hit close to home. In Terence Davies' searing memoir of his working-class family in Liverpool 30 and 40 years ago, mystery resides in the vision of his mother, magically poised on the hall sill, washing the outside windows ("Don't fall, Mom. Please don't fall"). Laughter erupts from three colleens parodying a Nat King Cole hit ("They tried to sell us egg foo yung"). The recollected terror of a vicious father can be tempered by his early death. The daughter who vowed, "If I ever...