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...what the council should be doing simply do not have the right to criticize its ineffectiveness, let alone laugh at its blunders. If the council is inefficient and lacks direction, it is largely the fault of a humiliatingly complacent and apathetic student body that would rather watch a sit-com on Channel 4 than bother to participate in improving student life...

Author: By Stacie A. Lipp, | Title: Travesty for Two | 3/8/1986 | See Source »

...WALKS TERRY, (Jami Gertz) whom you'll remember as the inimitable prepster Muffy from the short-lived television sit-com Square Pegs. Due to the poor screenwriting talents of Ezra Sacks, poor Terry is given a rather confused character make-up: she tells Hector that her father is a decorated Army flier but spins tales of her parents' opening for Frank Sinatra in Vegas for the erstwhile Jack. No explanation of these inconsistencies is ever provided. She's clearly a runaway, but from whom or what is unclear. In a rather impassioned speech to Jack, on whom she's predictably...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Don't Get Taken for a Ride by Quicksilver | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

Barring objections from House Masters, the College will shut down its experimental pay-by-the-hour Com-op word processing system and sell all but four of the 40 Digital Electronic Corporation machines...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Coin-Ops Lose $100,000; Program May Be Ended | 5/10/1985 | See Source »

After being off the air for a long time, Cosby came back to prime time last fall and his sit-com vaulted into the top spot in the Nielsens midway through the season...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: The Death of Coke | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...must play themselves, but in a more metaphysical sense. Each allegorical character follows his own inexorable law, fixed in a reality which never changes. Actress Linda Lavin plays the Mother, a character trapped in an eternal moment of grief. Lavin, who played the title role in the CBS sit-com "Alice," makes her tragedy seem frighteningly real. Her limping movements, quavery voice and a face of pure sorrow bring her character to life...

Author: By Ted Osius, | Title: Double Vision | 5/25/1984 | See Source »

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