Word: em
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE'S A NEW SHOW on prime time this season about the FBI By all accounts it's pretty tame stuff--the basic shoot-out, book em Danno approach to television police drama. There's nothing wrong with such shows (at least compared to what they compete with except that they have so little to do with the way the FBI actually works Garrow's book, on the other hand, although perhaps too well-written and well-documented, would make an excellent pilot episode for Hoover's FBI. The Real Story...
...inventive choreography. Siretta does not recreate the dances of the period, but rather their style, which makes it easier for a modern audience to appreciate them. Cohan's score offers delights other than the songs which went on to become American institutions. He could write not only belt-em-outs, but gentle ballads like "Life's a Funny Proposition," done subtlely and straightforwardly by Osmond, and wonderful comic creations such as "Captain of a Ten Day Boat" a parody of all those tongue-twisting Gilbert and Sullivan patter songs, which Jack Bittner delivers impeccably. Eddie Sauter and Mack Schlefer...
...museums every year are familiar with the big draws: the Wright brothers' Kitty Hawk, the moon rocks, Archie Bunker's chair, the Hope diamond, the First Ladies' dresses, Fonzie's leather jacket, the ruby slippers that took Judy Garland back to Aunt Em in The Wizard...
...Anything you can think of, we usually have two of 'em," says Al Bachmeier, a collections manager for the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. "After you count 40 bio-belt pouches (for collecting and transmitting information about heart and respiratory functions) from the astronauts, you begin to wonder why you need...
...Night Football, the Browns and their title were all but forgotten. All he could talk about was McInally. He talked about the illegal hit, and he talked about the tying touchdown. And then in his best Cosellian tones he waxed philosophical: "Don't tell me they don't make 'em tough up at Harvard...