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Back when Bob Barker still had black hair, families were feuding, and whammies were a menace to society, game shows ruled the television screen. During the golden years of gaming in the 1970s and early 1980s, millions of degenerate adults and sick schoolchildren could spend their days on the couch in the living room, watching non-stop game shows on the three major networks from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Sadly, many feel that today's shows fall short of capturing that tacky flair so critical to the classic game show experience...
Mandel also notes that hosts play integral roles in the success of game shows. Bob Barker reigns as the undisputed king of game show hosts, displaying super-human endurance with his 26 year stint on "The Price is Right." Fast approaching 80 years of age, Barker, who spends rerun seasons in a giant jar of formaldehyde, has also persevered through a publicity nightmare stemming from an affair with show model Dian Parkinson...
...looking at [the Hemenway Gymnasium], aswe are looking at several other possibilities,"Zewinski said. "Several smaller properties havebeen relocated as a result of the Barker Centerrenovation...
...Knafel Center is built as planned, the entire Government Department, including the University's various centers for international studies, would be united in the Coolidge-Knafel complex, leaving all of Littauer to Economics. Much as the Faculty neatly assembled its humanities departments in the Barker Center, the social sciences would be brought together in the vicinity of Knafel, with the Center for European Studies and William James Hall (housing sociology, psychology and social anthropology) across the street...
...this vision of a neatly-arranged academic eden is not so appealing in context of the costs entailed. Creating the Barker Center meant giving up some of the history and character of the building for a more generic space...