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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...virtue of its subject matter Mastergate cannot help but be funny. The televised Iran-Contra hearings gave us a glimpse, and a nauseating one at that, of the theater of politics. And Gelbart, the creator of the long-lived MASH television series, has no trouble at making the macabre laughable...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Is It Real, or Is It Memorex? | 2/10/1989 | See Source »

...wish the hearings had been this way in real life. We are told that the actor Joseph Daly is playing Vice President Burden. But when he delivers lines, or rather Bushisms, like, "Major Battle helped lead his men in the attack in the mud at Pearl Harbor," we cannot help but wish our own administration were so eloquently incompetent. Actor Daniel von Bargen portrays Major Manley Battle, whose lines like "standing orders prevent me from flying on anything but a stealth bomber," even outdo the real-life performance of Lt. Col. Oliver North...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Is It Real, or Is It Memorex? | 2/10/1989 | See Source »

Massachusetts has transformed traditional liberal social programs into "good, wise, strong investment" since Dukakis was reelected in 1982, Johnston said, citing commitments to the homeless, the unemployed and working mothers that cannot be abandoned...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: State Official: Tax Hike To Fund Social Agenda | 2/9/1989 | See Source »

Some faculty and administrators have raised concerns that Harvard risks its academic integrity by investing in--or profiting from--deals which it cannot control and which may be unethical...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Scott Asserts Need for Agressive Fundraising | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...problem is these would-be Playboy readers need the respectability of a sports magazine. They cannot admit their real interests to themselves or others. So they weakly maintain that reading, or rather looking at, the February issue is essential to keeping up with the world of sports. Have a good workout...

Author: By Steven J.S. Glick, | Title: Swimming Through the Sleaze | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

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