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Teachers will use the videotapes of educational programming from the Arts and Entertainment Network to introduce students to biographical figures in world history. "We want to use television as a motivating force to encouraging reading," said Bert Giroux of the Cambridge School Department. "The cable programs will refer interested students to books on the program's particular subject," Giroux added...
...Bert Blyleven, who pitched for the Twins the last time they were in the playoffs in 1970, worked 7 1/3 innings and limited Detroit to Chet Lemon's second-inning homer, a two-run shot, and an eight inning solo homer by Lou Whitaker. Juan Berenguer got the final five outs, four on strikeouts, for the save...
...rock concerts. Or it may simply be that the instant gratification of one-liners is perfectly suited to the short attention span of the TV-educated '80s audience. "If you go to a comedy play, a certain amount of time is lost setting up the plot or characters," notes Bert Haas, general manager of Zanies, a Chicago-based comedy-club chain. "In the stand- up comedy room, you get three or four laughs in one minute. It's like a shot of adrenaline...
Both have to deal with recalcitrant offspring. Bert's son Victor (Ross Bickell) is a policeman who, since the death of his brother, has been trying to convince everyone who cares about him that he's a "non-thinking fascist thug...
...COURSE of Bert and Theresa's love affair is interrupted by the violent events going on around them. The play, however, fails to explore the ramifications of those events; it merely takes note of them. It's impossible to doubt Reid's sincerity but hard not to notice his lack of intensity...