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...Coit Tower, the Golden Gate Park's Japanese tea garden, Ghirardelli Square and 13 other San Francisco landmarks, conventioneers will wander among open bars and mountains of ethnic foodstuffs from 9 p.m. to midnight in an area the size of four football fields. The $250,000 fandango, paid for by private and corporate donors, is the brainchild of a master politician for whom partying is a way of life. Says California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown Jr., the state's most powerful Democrat: "If you can't drink it, drive it or wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Happening off the Floor | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

...been the gravity of a potentially heroic tragic actor waylaid en route to his destiny. His voice is still a casque of gold, but like that ardent Burton fan, Churchill, he seems always to be addressing a constituency, never a person. Of course, the audience for this Taylor-Burton fandango is undeniably a constituency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: King Midas Calls the Tune | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...according to country. Its 18 hours of daily programming boast a cornucopia of country culture: 30 minutes of live music a night on Nashville After Hours; 1-40 Paradise, a country comedy set in a Tennessee truck stop; Dancin' U.S.A. (watch rhinestone cowboys do the "Cotton-Eyed Joe"); Fandango, a quiz program testing contestants on their knowledge of country trivia. Unlike MTV, which is essentially a video jukebox featuring rock video clips, the Nashville Network has a menu of original programming along the lines of a full-service network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Country Comes to Cable | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

Frantic finale to a fourway, multibillion-dollar takeover fandango...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merger Theater of the Absurd | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

...After Pearl Harbor, Admiral Kimmel, commander of the U.S. Fleet, and Major General Short, commander of the Army's Hawaiian department, had a field day blaming each other and Washington for unpreparedness, but since all were culpable, there was no real art in the show. The same fandango is going on in Spain these days, with the generals on trial for treason frantic to pin last year's failed coup on each other. The buck may also be passed to superiors, as Nuremburg made clear. The first buck pass was Adam to Eve to snake, who, while superior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Staff Ate My Homework | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

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