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Video monitors, instant replay, cue cards -- it's just like the real thing. Except nobody hears it but you. A TV camera records your every utterance for videotape, and when your inning is up you get a cassette of your performance as well as two tickets to another game. Bring a buddy to do color commentary! Amaze your friends! Appall your mother! No holds are barred, no sentiments bleeped, no expletives deleted. The ump blows a close play at the plate? Give 'im hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How About Those Announcers? | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...admit a fair share of women. But balancing the sexes will not alone solve the problem. Both men and women at Harvard need to meet each other halfway. Women must be willing to risk entering into the fray of public debate, and men must be willing to take a cue from the women classmates and listen...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: A Silent Minority | 10/18/1988 | See Source »

Another new drama, CBS's Almost Grown, takes its cue from last season's yuppie success thirtysomething. The two-hour premiere chronicles three decades in the relationship of a New Jersey couple played by Timothy Daly and Eve Gordon. They date in high school during the early '60s (Motown music on the sound track), live together as rebellious college students (psychedelic rock), marry to satisfy their parents and eventually divorce. The bouffant hairdos and nerdy wisecracks lend fun to the flashbacks, but Daly and Gordon face such predictable life crises that one might be reading a textbook on the generic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The New Season: Boomers and Humors | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...this semester, then, I would like to request an immediate change in instructors to include those who receive better ratings from the CUE guide and other sources, such as Robin Gottlieb, Deborah Hughes Hallet, Sylvain Laroche, Mark McConnell, etc. Math 21a is one of the most important courses for science majors, and thus good professors should not be hidden away for the upper level courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Math Problems | 10/5/1988 | See Source »

...choreography became familiar. Students would throw stones and fire bombs; the police would respond by tossing back the stones along with some pepper gas. An hour later, both groups would call it quits. As if on cue, a water truck would roll in to hose down the street, as the police removed their helmets and the students strolled to their campus. The demonstrations made good, if somewhat misleading, television footage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics Special Section: Olympic Shorts: Protest Pro Forma | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

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