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Despite the tradition of glitter and enthusiasm which we assuredly will hear more about before Sunday, it's been a rough year for football. The extended strike by players took a sizeable bite out of the season, forcing the league to rearrange the playoff format and--alas--allow just one week instead of two for Super Bowl hype. Complex questions over anti-trust and eminent domain arose after the relocation of a team. And widespread reports of rampant cocaine use among players rocked the league. In short, the seamy side of football emerged this year, making clear that the game...
...still sounds like one of them. He still looks like one of them. And he has brought them quite an Apple to bite. Perfect. ?By Jay Cocks. Reported by Michael Moritz/Cupertino
...hobbyist machine called the Altair 8800 (cost: $395 in kit form, $621 assembled). The Altair soon vanished from the marketplace. But already there were other young and imaginative tinkerers out in Silicon Valley getting ready to produce personal computers, including one bearing an odd symbol: an apple with a bite taken out of it. Suddenly, the future was now. -By Frederic Golden
...hard to say where all these inventions, and the wit with which they are stated, first appeared. There was an original script by Don McGuire (Bad Day at Black Rock), rewritten by Robert Kaufman (Love at First Bite). Thereafter, Schisgal and Larry Gelbart, of Movie Movie and TV's MASH, each did new versions. A large contribution was made by Elaine May and smaller ones by Valerie Curtin (Inside Moves), Barry Levinson (Diner) and Robert Garland (The Electric Horseman). After arbitration, screen credit finally went to Gelbart and Schisgal. But it was Pollack who "sat in a room with...
...trouble spending all his money effectively at the end of his campaign. He could buy no more than $280,000 a week of TV time because that is all Texas stations were willing to sell. Lehrman's spending in New York became an issue in itself, adding bite to the slogan of his Democratic opponent, Lieutenant Governor Mario Cuomo: "Experience money...