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...President's aim, aides say, is to get a bill to the Republican- controlle d Senate, where it can be reshaped more to his liking next year. But his gingerly show of support may have doomed its chances. "He kicked the ball down the field and ran like a beaver," groused Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois. House Republicans were openly at odds with the package. In a party meeting last week, they voted overwhelmingly to oppose the bill, calling it "anti-family, anti-growth and anti-investment...
...Want To Grow Up (New Alliance) by Descendants: With a song called "No Fat Beaver," it's obvious where this group's sympathies lie. Milo Auckerman is 10 times snottier than lead Violent Femme Gordon Gano on his worst day. Auckerman elicits the sort of admiration I felt for the kid who sat behind me in fourth grade, a sedate youth who poured urine all over the teacher's desk. This record has just a smidgeon of discipline which makes it cohesive. After all, snottiness is what rock and roll is all about...
...sitcoms and other network-style series. 1st & Ten, which debuted in August, follows the fortunes of a struggling pro football team owned by a sexy divorcee. Showtime's newest entry is Washingtoon, a sitcom about a naive freshman Senator. The Disney Channel last season scored with Still the Beaver, an update of the old network comedy Leave It to Beaver, and this month introduced Danger Bay, an adventure series about a family that saves animals in peril. The USA Network has just unveiled its first original sitcom, Check It Out!, starring Don Adams as a harried supermarket manager...
...National Bar Association, which argued that Turner had "demonstrated an insensitivity for blacks, Hispanics, women and Jews." More than 100 CBS affiliates chimed in as well. Most of their petitions asserted that network programs could suffer under Turner, whose stations feature reruns of 1950s programs, including Leave It to Beaver and I Love Lucy, as well as a 24-hour news service...
...eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and southern Ontario, the hardest hit areas, dozens of roiling black spouts hopscotched across the countryside. It took just ten seconds for a twister to rip through a shopping center in Beaver Falls, Pa., tossing autos through plate glass windows as it went. "There was debris coming out of the top of the funnel," said Fireman Paul Gorby. "It was like a big runaway locomotive." The tornado peeled off the center's roof like a box top; rescue workers had to bring in a crane to lift fallen steel , girders that were pinning bodies below...