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...Terriers responded to tie it at one-apiece at 11:29 of the first, when Dave Silk ended a scramble in the crease by pushing it past Wisconsin's All-American goalie Julian Baretta on an assist from B.U. junior co-captain Jack O'Callahan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Badgers Wisconsin, 5-2; Silk Scores Two in NCAA Semis | 3/24/1978 | See Source »

Through its recording and Universal film subsidiaries, MCA Inc. has produced some of television's more violent programs (Baretta, Kojak), some very slick and successful flicks (The Sting and, above all, Jaws) and a stack of million-selling gold records, by Elton John and Olivia Newton-John among others. But entertainment alone has not satiated MCA's voracious appetite for acquisition. It also has pushed into computer services, retail gift stores, publishing (Putnam) and finance (Colorado's Columbia Savings and Loan). Last week MCA decided that all these things would go better with Coke. It offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Jaws Tries to Swallow Coke? | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...testify Ronald was a confirmed TV addict who spent at least six hours a day staring at the screen; he refused to eat unless the television was on and sometimes sneaked out of bed to catch a late movie. His favorite shows: such cops-and-robbers series as Kojak, Baretta and Starsky and Hutch. According to Mrs. Zamora, Ronald is such a Kojak fan, "he even asked his father to shave his head because he wanted my husband to look like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Did TV Make Him Do It? | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...through 19 scenes of mass murder, bludgeoning, bombing and miscellaneous mayhem. In the film on sexuality, compassionate treatment of sex is viewed favorably, but many scenes are criticized for mechanizing and dehumanizing sex. Among the more eye-stopping examples: Gabriel Kaplan joking about gang rape; a crazed rapist on Baretta telling his victim, "I've broken a lot of necks in my time. I'm glad you know it. It will make it better." On advertising, T.A.T. presents the classic (though now changed) commercial in which David Janssen mumbles that doctors' studies favor Excedrin for "pain other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: If the Eye Offend Thee | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...season, prime time will soon have to live without a new cop show. Up against The Waltons and the Osmonds, CHiPS may not last out the month. Erik Estrada stars as a motorcycle cop named Poncherello ("Ponch" to friends) who bears an all too obvious resemblance to both Baretta and the Fonz. For an hour, he and his partner (Larry Wilcox) ride the Los Angeles freeways arresting or aiding motorists. Occasionally they take a break to bicker with their strident commanding sergeant (Robert Pine) or flirt with pretty girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoint: Lou, Carter, CHiPS | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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