Word: fall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson will need all that poise and team spirit next week in Princeton for their first big tournament. The ECAC fall championships are taking place Oct. 8-11 at Princeton University...
...China celebrates the 50th anniversary of Mao's October revolution, high-tech military jets will scream over Beijing, foreigners will arrive in search of new investment opportunities, and the government will celebrate a nation transformed. But what will be missing is faith. Fifty years ago, on an overcast fall day, Mao and his cadres gathered in Tiananmen and stared at a nothing future--no food, no remnants of a healthy economy, no allies. All they had was faith. And it will be the only thing missing from this week's party...
...want to know the new ending of the tale, stop reading. In fact, this would be a good point for its fans to stop watching. In the post-Soviet-era conclusion, a group of dissident critters escapes the farm and lives to witness its collapse and Napoleon's fall. We flash forward to see order and peace restored--by a handsome blond family of new human farmers. It's a tiny change, a couple of minutes in all, but a baffling one that squares with neither history nor Orwell's vision. Who are these interlopers? The Czars? Boris Yeltsin...
...hoopla about the Fall TV lineup, most of the "new" shows feel numbingly familiar to me. Let's see: there are repackaged Ally reruns, a second dose of Law & Order and a Party of Five spin-off. And doesn't Once and Again sound a little too much like the old thirtysomething? I'm ready for something new, and I'm losing hope that I'll find it on prime time. So I decided to tune into TV-style programs on the Web instead. With faster 56K modems and built-in video players on Web browsers becoming standard...
Despite the letdowns, my TV adventure in cyberspace was worth it. It's fun to discover something that's just starting to take off. And who knows? This fall Party of Five may have to wait. I'm more excited about the next episode of Redemption High...