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...half-hour rally broke out at approximatly five minutes before 1 p.m. Students said the loud drums, which could be heard on Mass. Ave., disturbed classes in nearby Sever Hall, disrupting mid-term exams and discussion sections...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: 'Poonsters Rally, Celebrate Harvard's New #1 Ranking | 11/1/1990 | See Source »

...Talk Show, a syndicated late-night half-hour, is homemade in a literal sense. The premise is a throwback to that old Mary Hartman spinoff, Fernwood 2-Night: a housewife (Cynthia Stevenson) in the little town of Derby, Wis., has turned her living room into the set for a nightly talk show. It's a homey affair: her brother-in-law is the announcer; gray-haired Mrs. Battle, her old school nurse, is musical director; neighbors drop by to chat. So do real-life celebrities such as William Shatner and Florence Henderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: My In-Law, The Housefly | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...half-hour documentary, which airs every Saturday at 9:30 p.m. on Fox Network's Channel 25, will focus on these two sports in its December 15 episode...

Author: By Christine Edwards, | Title: Film-Makers to Shoot Races | 10/20/1990 | See Source »

Stone's is the first of 15 famous faces -- interspersed with gripping footage of felled redwoods, fish deformed by ocean dumping and smokestacks belching black clouds of toxins -- that appeared in a half-hour television ad seen this summer throughout California. The program was designed to build support for "Big Green," the most sweeping of four environmental initiatives that will go before state voters this November. By then they may be scratching their head trying to keep the proposals straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Lack of Initiatives | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...performers -- comparable with the combined casts of all the musicals currently on Broadway -- in a dozen shows with a cumulative annual audience of nearly 5 million. Most of these actors, and the bulk of their counterparts at other theme parks, appear in five or six daily performances of a half-hour or more, six days a week, often outdoors in 90 degrees heat, with no showers backstage. They develop discipline and stamina. Even harder, they learn to keep fresh a routine they are performing for the 300th time but that spectators are seeing as if brand new -- all for about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Where The Stagestruck Get Started | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

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