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...tradition, WKRP is about the modern American family: people who work together rather than live together. Among the station employees are the hip new program director (Gary Sandy), a shamelessly corrupt ad manager (Frank Bonner), and a prissy newscaster obsessed with hog futures (Richard Sanders). If there is a standout performer, it is Howard Hesseman as a fading deejay who falls asleep during his own broadcasts. Hesseman gets so many laughs that even the show's typically effusive laugh track cannot keep up with the pace

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1978-79 Season: I | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...plantation southeast of Atlanta, where she runs a meat brokerage business. For years it seemed they had a perfect political marriage. But he drank, she says, and the marriage deteriorated. She came down with the Washington-wife blues and started seeing a psychiatrist. One evening in 1976, shortly after hog-killing time, Betty Talmadge suddenly recovered. While watching the news on TV at Lovejoy, she discovered that the Senator had filed for divorce. She went to the next room, where Talmadge was sitting, and said: "When are you moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Life Among the Talmadges | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...inclined. A Coop charge account can ease some of your financial burden, especially with the rebate deal they throw in. And you certainly feel as though you are spending less, because the place has a definite supermarket-type atmosphere. A warning, however: it is more than easy to go hog-wild in the Coop, especially with one of those little cards in hand, so be careful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cruising the Square | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...staff meeting on Thursday afternoons in the Roosevelt Room. They sound more like postgraduate seminars in political science, economics and psychology than security briefings. The emphasis is on intellectual exchange. Brzezinski accepts criticism from his staff so long as it is not too blunt. He holds, but does not hog the floor. His 31-member staff is lean, and in some areas, such as the Middle East, the Far East and strategic policy, it is very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rapping for Carter's Ear | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Then the sheep heard that the Council of Owls was involved in another meadow in a far off land called Aparkside, where the white sheep lived high off the hog (excuse the metaphor) by making the black sheep work really hard for them. And the white sheep wouldn't let the black sheep form a flock, and made them eat bad apples that caused many of the little lambs to die before they grew up. The Vard Council of Owls had a deal with the Aparkside rulers, in which Aparkside rulers like the John the Horsester gave Vard money...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Derek the Duck and John the Fox | 4/29/1978 | See Source »

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