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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just came up with some new things to hit them with," says Sullivan...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: A New Salvo Against Harvard | 12/6/1988 | See Source »

...Captain Neil Phillips, starting his first game of the season, hit six of his eight shots en route to an 18-point effort. Dana Smith, who failed to score a point in Harvard's loss to Lehigh on Friday, pumped in 10 points...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Cagers Accept No Appeals From Judges, 79-54 | 12/6/1988 | See Source »

...course of true love takes some strange turns in Roseanne, ABC's new hit sitcom starring comedian Roseanne Barr. This blunt-spoken family may not win any awards for Wonder-bread wholesomeness, but not since The Cosby Show has a TV clan achieved such instant rapport with the American public. Since its debut in mid-October, the show has consistently finished in the Nielsen Top Ten, one week even landing in the heady No. 2 spot, behind only the indestructible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Sharp Tongue in the Trenches: Roseanne Barr | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...usual with a new network hit, Roseanne has been widely hailed as a TV breakthrough. The program's honest portrayal of blue-collar family life is, indeed, unusual for network TV, though hardly unprecedented. Its forebears range from The Honeymooners and All in the Family to, more recently, the Fox network's raunchy satire Married . . . with Children. Still, the show's grungy ambience and gleeful puncturing of TV ideals of happy domesticity have made it the most daring new sitcom of the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Sharp Tongue in the Trenches: Roseanne Barr | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

VIDEO: Roseanne Barr sparks TV' s newest hit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page December 5, 1988 | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

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