Appearances in The Media
In the Katharine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy film Desk Set, the market cost of the annual depredations of the Spruce Budworm on United States forests is invoked as an example reference question in comparing the response times of human reference librarians and early computer databases.
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Famous quotes containing the words appearances and/or media:
“We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)