Word: dorf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prevented at least 1,400 companies -- entertainment giants like Paramount as well as scores of small mom-and-pop operations -- from plunging into the field with an eclectic selection of specialized cassettes. Looking for stars? Tim Conway plays a 4-ft.-tall golf expert in a comedy tape called Dorf on Golf, and Shelley Duvall is the safety-minded host of Earthquake Survival. Anyone for instant history? There are video highlights of Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to the U.S. and Oliver North's testimony at the Iran- contra hearings. Is the small print in those self-help...
Bizarre might be the word to describe the success of Dorf on Golf, which, with sales of more than 150,000, is one of the surprise hits of the home-video field. A takeoff on the multitude of golf instructional tapes, it features Conway standing on his knees to appear like a midget and doing a slow burn through a feeble series of slapstick gags. A newly released sequel, Dorf and the First Games of Mt. Olympus, has even less point or wit, as the character participates in the hurdles, pole vault and other Olympic events with the help...
WHRB staffer Michael C. Dorf '86, who had answered the call, notified the Harvard police. On their arrival, police asked students to leave the building during what would become the first of two evacuations...
...grant will allow me to take bigger risks, develop new approaches and look at the larger issues," said grant recipient Martin E. Dorf, Med School professor of Pathology...
...Dorf said he plans to use the $86,000 portion of the grant he received this year to explore the immune system's response to specific chemicals. The immune system may turn out to be crucial for understanding cancer and organ transplants, he said...