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With a whoop and a holler and a dash of down-home glitter, country music strutted onto cable television last week. The Nashville Network, a joint venture from WSM Inc. of Nashville (owners of the Grand Ole Opry) and Group W Satellite Communications, was beamed into some 7 million homes via 725 cable operators. It was the largest subscriber launch in the history of cable television. The inaugural evening featured five hours of live music by such country stars as Tammy Wynette, Emmylou Harris and Tanya Tucker as they sang at kickoff parties round the country. The Nashville Network, according...
...more believable down deep. The use of popular music at climactic scenes is likewise questionable: in the final scene, when vengeance is pounding recklessly towards fulfillment, the Talking Heads' "Psycho-Killer" erupts out of nowhere as servants sprinkle the grappling bodies with red glitter. The ploy only adds a dash of Saturday Night Fever to an already macabre event. And the updating is not uniform throughout. Sudden bursts of gunshots in the final scenes startle an audience grown used to the clash of swords. In duelling scenes, digital watches glint on the wrists of saber-holding swashbucklers...
...offensive foray did get past the Harvard defense, though, a two-on-one dash by Guay and Kurt Kleinendorst. But Guay lost control of Kleinendorst's pass as he skated by the Crimson...
Earlier Theresa Moore broke two school records running the 60 yard dash 7 42 seconds and posting a 17-ft 9 12 in long jump. Moore's record-breaking efforts weren't good enough quality her for Saturday's finals...
...former Vice President goes ice fishing and poses with a puny perch dangling from his line. A 68-year-old Senator dons athletic shorts and runs a 60-yd. dash in a San Francisco track meet. A man who once orbited the earth turns up at a cattle show and enters a contest to guess the weight of a black Simmental bull; first prize is a dozen vials of bull semen...