Word: haunted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would millions of other viewers, and their choice has serious repercussions. Sitcom hits that have gone to syndication heaven have come back to haunt the networks. MASH, whose first ten seasons are spinning out on local stations, consistently wins higher ratings in New York City than the networks' nightly news shows. One recent Thursday in the Los Angeles market, a rerun of Three's Company on a local independent station was the top-rated show of the night, higher than Hill Street Blues, Simon & Simon or Magnum, P.I. Says Frederick S. Pierce, president and chief operating officer...
...lingering charge that he had once talked aloud of never wanting any black players on his team: "I don't recall it. I'd bet my life I never said it. Maybe I did. I don't say anything that would come back to haunt me." But it is also a matter of record that his players, black and white, speak of him lovingly. They never seem to outgrow their...
...doubt that Kennedy is concerned about his children. The 1980 campaign, which raised the dual specters of assassination and the 1969 drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick, was, as one family friend said, "torture and torment for those kids." Such ghosts would be certain to haunt a 1984 presidential campaign. Patrick, who suffers from asthma, was so worried about his father's safety during the 1980 campaign that Kennedy called him daily...
...Regulation 53) declares the death sentence for "any offense liable to cause insecurity, fear, or despondency amongst the public," and presumes the accused guilty until proven innocent in front of a military court. Yet in the end, America's military and economic support for such human rights violators will haunt us long after the political motives of the day have been forgotten...
Such questions haunt Ian Hamilton's extensive biography of poet Robert Lowell, who confronted all of these dilemmas Born into the wealthy, heritage-ridden Lowell family, he was the only son of a weak-willed father and a domineering mother who made sure he went to the right schools--St Mark's prep. then Harvard. Until his freshman year at college. Lowell had shown only ordinary signs of rebellion against a stifling Boston social order. During that year he became romantically involved with Anne Dick, a 24-year-old cousin of one of his friends, beginning what would...