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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sang like Bing Crosby. More important, he looked like Crosby sang: dark, romantic, utterly at ease. Those seductive glissandi and buh-buh-buh-boos made him a housewife's heart murmur and the ideal straight man for a crew-cut ba- ba-baboon, Jerry Lewis -- "the organ grinder and the monkey," they were called. In the early '50s the duo owned movies, TV, nightclubs, stage shows, and the singer had hit records (That's Amore, Memories Are Made of This) on the side. When they split up in 1956, he segued smoothly into leading-man roles. He Rat-Packed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dealer With A Hot Hand | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

When actor Robert Downey Jr. arrived with acamera crew--some guessed it was form MTV--moststudents forgot about their aching feet and beganto clamor for autographs. But a few minutes later,they quickly abandoned their new-found hero. Itwas time for them to enter the convention den andgreet another, older hero--Ronald W. Reagan...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Republicans Court Students | 8/18/1992 | See Source »

...frequently pornographic world of outrageously sterotyped Black characters. James' jokes hurtle by at a furious pace: Bubbles travels to the Isle of the Unrestrained Negroes, negotiates the Cave of the Flaming Tar Babies and survives attacks from the Flapjack Ninja-kilers from Hell, some Negroid Vomitoids and a lascivious crew of Muppet B-Boys...

Author: By Davids. Kurnick, | Title: Negrophobia is a Racy Tale Of Flesh, Freaks and Fear | 8/14/1992 | See Source »

...took third place in the European Class singlehanded women's sailing competition, became the third Harvard athlete to win an Olympic bronze medal, David C. Berkoff '89 earned his bronze in the men's 100 backstroke and Anna B. Seaton '86 won hers in the women's crew pairs race...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Athletes Take 3 Bronzes | 8/11/1992 | See Source »

...broadcast coverage -- stressing that the pay-TV event would be live and commercial free in contrast to the broadcast programming, which is mostly taped and filled to the brim with ads. Indeed, TripleCast viewers -- however few -- have found NBC's evening coverage disingenuous, not to say superfluous: Costas and crew have had to manufacture suspense around events already completed and aired earlier in the day. What's more, the TripleCast's no-nonsense approach (events shown in full; no distracting feature stories) has made the network's prime-time coverage seem even more schmaltzy and overproduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television How Much Is Too Much? | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

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