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Nine times the Princeton power play trotted out for a hoedown...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Paying the Mortgage on a Second Home | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...what it really wants, what it really needs--a Dolphin-Bear title game--would be akin to depriving it of a Yankee-Dodger World Series in lieu of a Mariner-Giant baseball battle, akin to depriving it of a Celtic-Laker Championship in lieu of a Cavalier-Maverick hoop hoedown, or akin to depriving it of an Ali-Frazier replay in lieu of a Tex Cobb-Ed "Too Tall" Jones boxing bout...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Pats-Miami: Two Hometown Boys Square Off... | 1/10/1986 | See Source »

When the Academy of Country Music staged its annual awards hoedown last week, the winning crooners were wearing their best show-biz smiles. But the more common expression on Nashville's Music Row these days is a long face. Only five years ago, country's popularity was growing dramatically, thanks in part to the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy. But when the fickle mainstream audience abruptly lost its fascination with the Texas two-step, sales turned sour. While total record-company sales have grown 13% since 1980, to $4.3 billion last year, country-music revenues have dropped 6%, to $430 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Notes: Country Music a Sad Song of Sorry Sales | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

With 4,470 delegates and alternates, 12,000 journalists and a projected 10,000 guests, the Republican hoedown will be both smaller than the Democrats' and smaller than expected (the party canceled about 12,000 unneeded hotel reservations last month). To ferry conventioneers between the 47 delegation hotels and the convention, G.O.P. organizers will be running a fleet of 120 shuttle buses (price of a four-day pass: $30). Only minor skirmishes over platform positions are expected inside the hall. Conservatives, led by Kemp and Congressman Trent Lott of Mississippi, are pushing for three major planks: a return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coronation in Prime Time | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...Rose could be more than a prairiefied Dallas. NBC says the series is "in the tradition of Giant and Hud, "and it is. It is also in the Saturday-night graveyard slot, so it will have to corral an audience quickly. The Yellow Rose deserves a shot: this lowdown hoedown is the fall's juiciest new show. -By Richard Corliss

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: And Mister Ed Begat Mr. Smith | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

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