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It was a month of Sundays as the networks claw and kick for audiences Feb. 11, 1979, was not a date that most people remembered much past Feb. 11, 1979. But to the hundred or so top people in the television industry, it was Black Sunday, the costliest night in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chaos in Television | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

But some good stuff is coming soon. Elvis Costello will be in Boston at the end of the month; the audience will be able to see him act spastic in person while he sings great songs. Unfortunately, by now all the tickets have gone away forever.

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Beyond the Potato | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

Elvis will probably avoid eye contact with the crowd while singing some of the hits from his new album, "Armed Forces." It's hard to believe that someone like Elvis would travel around to get people to buy his music, but it's true. Nevertheless, it's nice that he...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Beyond the Potato | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

What O'Leary achieves with actions, super-freshman Hanes does with words. Not only does he have the egocentric villain character nailed ("Natalie, I believe I've found myself overqualified for life as we know it."), but the kid knows how to play off the audience like the great comic...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: The Smell of the Crowd | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

In the general store, under the gaze of a ceramic bust of Elvis Presley, drivers can buy everything from iridescent oil paintings (often depicting trucks) to pantyhose. What they buy most is hats ($30) and boots (up to $150). The newsstand is jammed with copies of Overdrive, the CB Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Georgia: Footnotes from a Trucker's Heaven | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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