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...sleazy Times Square marquees than in a TV log: I Am Curious (Yellow) and (Blue), The Conjugal Bed, And So to Bed, How to Succeed with Sex and Naked and Free. For thousands of viewers of UHF Channel 79 in Toronto, however, they are as familiar as The Flip Wilson Show...
...history, Yale failed to reach the finals in the event, which until very recently was an Elis trademark. In the consolation finals, the team finished first but was disqualified on starts. To top off what had to be an extremely disappointing weekend, Yale captain Nate Cartmel, in a coin flip for the silver League trophy, lost to Harvard's Mike Cook and the Crimson took the cup back to Cambridge in a plastic baggie...
...Flip through these pages and it's 1938. The maple leaves whisper outside the bedroom window and the algebra book is lying unopened on the desk. The Emerson table radio is tuned to WGR, Buffalo, as the announcer asks you to join him in "the small house halfway up in the next block" and the voice of Vic comes through the speaker greeting his son Rush: "Hi de hi, ho de ho, ink stopper...
...television is playing on the table, with the sound turned was down Kris Kristofferson and some long-haired rock musicians are playing on the Flip Wilson show TV didn't used to be like this: you rarely saw long-haired musician and there were some bands who were never on TV the good ones. I was the type who got excited the first time Jefferson Airplane played Ed Sullivan with Grace slick in blackface. But I was a little sorry too. You couldn't hear the music right over TV; and you guessed they just did it for money...
...rock musicians stop stroking their guitars. It's the end of the program, and Flip Wilson is standing at the front of the studio stage flipping the final wave as the theme music must be playing and the audience clapping, flipping the V. peace sign, and the show is over. We are still sitting sucking balloons like so many colored nipples of ambrosia. The album is still playing, and I'm still sorry those musicians wanted to play to videotape machines and cued audiences between commercials. But things are different now. I suck on my balloon, hard. It doesn...