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...broadcast of the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries Roots, Hollywood, in such films as Glory, Amistad and Beloved, has helped depict a more complex picture of race relations in early America. Combined with new literature and scholarship on the African American experience such as John Hope Franklin's Runaway Slaves, the companion to the four-part, six-hour PBS series Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery, and Microsoft's CD-ROM encyclopedia, the Encarta Africana, there is respect and understanding for the lives of African ancestors...
...instance, during a halftime commercial forthe WWF during the Super Bowl, a male wrestler anda female companion appeared in a sexuallysuggestive position...
...hours into 12, or rather six two-hour programs. They will air at 9 p.m. E.T. over the next two weeks, beginning this Monday and ending on Saturday, April 10. Narrated by Peter Jennings, The Century served as the mother lode from which the anchorman's well-received companion volume of the same name was mined. The book, written with Todd Brewster, is perched on the New York Times best-seller list, 11 slots behind The Greatest Generation, a historical tome by another network-news anchor, Tom Brokaw...
During the three seasons from 1958 to 1960, Mickey Mantle struck out 371 times. Reggie Jackson flailed in vain 313 times in two seasons. It is almost always part of the slugger's makeup, the monstrous whiff as companion to the mighty blast. But DiMaggio's relation to a pitched ball was as intimate as it was brutal. In his entire career he struck out only 369 times--this while hitting 361 home runs. During the magical 1941 season, he had 30 home runs, 13 strikeouts. (There are single weeks when modern sluggers strike out 13 times.) From his spread...
Enter Sarah (Sandra Bullock), an eccentric young woman who literally falls into his arms after a plane crash. Having unwittingly acquired an outlandish traveling companion and determined to avoid planes, the distressed groom-to-be heads towards Georgia to meet his anxious fiance Bridget (Maura Tierney). Ben just wants to get to Savannah (or does he?). Sarah's determined to show him what it's like to live on the edge. Not surprisingly, they kiss somewhere along...