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...clones of Animal House were in fashion; another year, rip-offs of Raiders of the Lost Ark were the rage. This year, however, the networks have scarcely looked beyond their own backyard for inspiration. Along with the crime fighters, there will be the requisite batch of sitcoms, more romantic fluff from the Aaron Spelling factory, another in the parade of blooper shows (ABC's People Do the Craziest Things) and a weekly version of a hit NBC mini-series from last season, V. The only discernible outside influence is the rock-on-film trend, sparked by Fame, Flashdance...
Hoddy had a golden eagle, a twelve-year-old female named Fluff, and he wanted it in the show. The show, while accepting Hoddy's proposal, wanted a bald eagle-national bird and all that-instead of a golden. The one picked came from the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Md., where it had lived for 22 years virtually without flying. Its name was Bomber, and according to Hoddy, "it looked like a little butterball turkey...
...understudy got the part and showed it had the mettle. Rehearsing to the strains of Fame, Fluff wheeled on a thermal, eyed Hoddy, heard the music ("I'm gonna live forever!/ I'm gonna learn how to fly!"), dive-bombed the field and hit the perch without a hitch. There was applause all around. The eagle had landed. But a vigorous press got wind of Bomber's fatal stress, and the controversy that followed sadly resulted in Fluffs being pulled from the show...
REGISTRATION PACKETS are notorious for containing a large number of papers which usually go from envelope to hand to wastebasket. Aside from the dreaded but necessary study card, assorted Harvard bureaucratic fluff is foisted semi-annually upon the unwitting registrant. But last Wednesday a slightly more interesting sheet emerged from the crowd...
...more than 100,000. Whether or not those papers lost readers in the process seems beside the point. Observers can comment on a perceived decline in the quality of taste and interests among Americans, but the fact remains that 335,000 Bostonians apparently would rather see space devoted to fluff than, say, an extra news analysis on educational reform...