Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time is early 1979, and the network wars have reached a frenzied peak. Sitcoms like Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley are riding high in the Nielsens. Blockbuster mini-series are vying to reproduce the huge audiences that tuned in for Roots. Star programmer Fred Silverman, the Man with the Golden Gut, is ready to try everything from Gary Coleman to Supertrain in his quest to lift NBC out of the prime-time ratings cellar...
Often, EPISO's workers encounter cold stares and slammed doors. Ceasar encourages them to return. "Once people understand they can change things," she explains, "the apathy starts to wash away." Hundreds of one-on-one meetings hasten action. Key volunteers work the neighborhoods on weekends, always heeding IAF's golden rule: "Don't do for others what they can do for themselves...
Whatever else may be wrong with the late American art industry, we are living in the golden age of the retrospective exhibition. One by one, the great artists of the 19th century have been done over the past decade: Cezanne, Manet, Courbet, Van Gogh, Gauguin -- and now Edgar Degas. We may deplore the crowds at these shows, the souvenir selling, the social circus and the TeleTron tickets at up to $7.75 apiece, an outrageous tax on knowledge. Earplugs -- preferably not attached to Acoustiguide gadgets -- and yogic detachment are needed. There are, as crusty old Degas said, some kinds of success...
...recall much about the restaurants--except the alcohol. None of the five restaurants in the mall served any (which was one of my prerequisites), so we had to walk a block-and-a half to purchase a couple of six-packs of Molson Golden at Essex Liquors. Having accomplished my important task of the evening, I decided to disregard some of the more cosmopolitan tastes of my companions and opt for the most American-sounding of the restaurants, the Lucky...
...Despite having some golden opportunities," Harvard Coach Sue Caples said, "we didn't capitalize on all our chances...