Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cool, coming-of-autumn evening on the Ohio River. At Rose's every motion, the flashes from the instant cameras made a light show. Enough newsmen joined the "Rose Watch" to prompt the youngest Cincinnati players to ask their manager in hushed voices, "Is this what a World Series is like?" Rose grinned and nodded. A few days before in Chicago, a left-handed Cubs pitcher wrecked his shoulder in a bicycle accident, and for several hours the city of Cincinnati was listed in critical condition. Throughout his 23rd season, Rose has played himself routinely against right-handers. So, starting...
...Tonight Show, where Dr. William H. Cosby, Ed.D. (U. Mass.) was telling a story about middle- aged parents trying to instruct their kids in the facts of life. Next morning, Tartikoff phoned Cosby's agent and floated yet another of his brainstorming haiku: "A black Family Ties." The following autumn The Cosby Show became the first sitcom smash since Mork & Mindy in 1978, cemented NBC's Thursday-night schedule, and propelled the network toward...
...Attorney General's most pressing long-term concern is the federal judiciary. President Reagan has 95 new or vacant judgeships to fill, and nominations are expected to flood Capitol Hill this autumn. Meese is bound to have a say in appointing judges who subscribe to the Administration's social philosophy. If he succeeds in packing the benches with conservative ideologues, Ed Meese may see the Reagan Revolution endure in America's courts through the end of this century...
...autumn. A portrait of a changing U.S.A. The G.O.P. Senate...
...move on to four other U.S. cities. A less ambitious but highly illuminating show, "Cenote of Sacrifice: Maya Treasures from the Sacred Well at Chichen Itza," drew crowds at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. It will move on to the Oakland Museum in California in the autumn and is scheduled to continue on the road in U.S. museums during the next two years...