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...nominee, Dukakis was modestly observing, "It's not over until it's over, and I mean it." His mode of travel was similarly humble at day's end: he walked across the Boston Common from the Massachusetts State House to the Park Street T station to start his customary half-hour subway ride home to Brookline...
...print model, the USA Today TV show will be a fast-paced potpourri of news and features, divided into four sections: money, sports, life and USA (hard news). Except for one "cover story" of four minutes or so, the pieces will be brief and numerous (about 35 a half-hour). This broadcast spin-off of "McPaper" -- McRather, perhaps? -- has impressive parentage: it comes from GTG Entertainment, the new company headed by ex-NBC Chairman Grant Tinker (in partnership with Gannett, USA Today's publisher), and is being produced by Steve Friedman, the respected former executive producer of NBC's Today...
...moreover, got where it is with some distinction. Its scrappy, try- anything-and-see-what-works program philosophy has yielded no TV breakthroughs but a few notable experiments. Sunday night's grab bag ranges from Werewolf, an oddly morose horror series, to The Tracey Ullman Show, a quirky half-hour of comedy sketches that qualifies as TV's most interesting near-miss. Fox has also scored a coup by acquiring It's Garry Shandling's Show, the shrewdly self-parodying cable sitcom, which is running on Fox after its initial airings on Showtime. The network's highest-rated show...
...Dole, Bush's strongest adversary, teetered on the brink of withdrawal even as he fought for revival in this week's Illinois primary. Dole cut half his campaign staff and canceled television ads in Illinois while scrambling to broadcast a half-hour final appeal on Saturday night. A frequent adviser who ranks as politics' reigning expert on defeat and redemption, Richard Nixon, wired encouragement: MAKE ILLINOIS YOUR FINEST HOUR...
...hedging, Bush decided on the Saturday before the primary to air the commercial that criticized Dole for "straddling" a variety of issues and refusing to oppose tax increases, which eventually led to Dole's outburst. That night the Vice President appeared on the three major area stations in a half-hour "Ask George Bush" forum. On Monday, Barry Goldwater, grand old man of the right, flew to New Hampshire to endorse Bush and shoot a five-minute commercial with the candidate. "I believe in George Bush," Goldwater said in the TV spot. "He's the man to continue the conservative...