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Word: abc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is no quarrel now [on Star Wars]," Gerasimov said on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley." "That's my point. There may be quarrel later...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Summit Begins Today; Visit to Harvard Axed | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...president is pressure proof on that,"Shultz said on the ABC program. "We are going todo the research and testing necessary to find outif we can defend ourselves against ballisticmissiles. And if we find out that we can, then wehave to be prepared to deploy...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Summit Begins Today; Visit to Harvard Axed | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...film actor and star of Beverly Hills Cop and Beverly Hills Cop II, plans to emphasize the fact that he has no known views on any subject, controversial or not. Although he has never read the Constitution, he did pay careful attention to Peter Jennings' three-hour special on ABC. In addition, he's the sort of wacky guy who might make the dour Justice Marshall bust a gut now and then...

Author: By Mathew A. Pinsker, | Title: Here Comes the Judge, Again | 11/17/1987 | See Source »

Sitcoms are trying to make you cry until you laugh this season. A new term has even been coined to describe the hybrid form: dramedies. Three new series -- ABC's Hooperman and The "Slap" Maxwell Story and CBS's Frank's Place -- are ostensibly comedies, but they go for few jokes and have no laughter on the sound track. As for the more traditional sitcoms, they are tackling such heavy subjects as AIDS (Designing Women), Alzheimer's disease (The Golden Girls) and teenage drunk driving (this week's segment of Valerie's Family). On a recent episode of Kate & Allie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Not Playing It for Laughs | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...Since ABC's Al Michaels shouted those words to a national television audience eight years ago from Lake Placid, legions of American hockey-playing youths have striven to emulate their heroes, members of the goldmedal winning 1980 USA Olympic team...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Trying to Recoup the Spirit of '84 is an Olympian Task | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

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