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Doctors and lawyers come and go, sitcoms have hit the skids, and one day even Joan Collins may be just another question in Trivial Pursuit. But in the world of TV programming, crime nearly always pays. That axiom seems to be the watchword as the networks prepare to unveil their new shows for the coming season. At a time when cable and home-video recorders are luring more and more viewers away from traditional network fare, the Big Three are responding by playing it safe−and nothing is safer than cops-and-robbers. Eight of the 22 new series...
...picked for their virtue and sterling characters, but it doesn't always happen that way. And so you take them where you find them." Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry made the same point to the De Lorean jury in the words of an old lawyers' axiom: "For a plot hatched in hell, don't expect angels for witnesses." -By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Los Angeles and John E. Yang/Washington
Behind that bland language was a tacit assumption of the summit: nothing should occur to inconvenience a leader seeking reelection. That axiom certainly guided Reagan's image makers during his entire European visit. Wherever he went, Reagan treated audiences to large doses of his fabled charm. He met his first challenge at University College in Galway, Ireland, a self-designated nuclear-free zone. While the President stood garbed in a scarlet-and-purple academic gown, preparing to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree, some 2,000 faculty, students and other protesters staged a demonstration about half a mile...
...taken seriously, and...does not represent the attitude of most of the members of the club." More likely, however, and far more sadly, is the probability that these women so accept their stereotyped roles that they feel the newsletter was, if not appropriate, then merely an example of the axiom, "boys will be boys...
...near-flawless checking game brought the Eagles their fifth consecutive game in a Bright Center both as crowded and quiet as Lamont Library. The visitors observed the ancient axiom--go for the man, not the puck--and generally kept the Crimson at a safe distance from goalie Scott Gordon...