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...even the best programs break the mold; they only burnish it. The shows that hunker down on the middle ground content themselves with switching standard characters and stories around, rearranging furniture in an old house that actually needs razing, not redecoration. Giving the stalwart Brian Dennehy a hunky dimwit (Michael Dudikoff) for a teen-age son and a young daughter (Kathy Maisnik) who is enjoying some success as a country-and-western singer does not make him measurably less like Archie Bunker, even if his brains are heavier and his social conscience a little lighter. In Star of the Family...
With their huge military wherewithal, the logistical advantage of a common 1,050-mile border, and few or no political repercussions to worry about on the home front (the Kremlin need not fear that Moscow State University undergraduates will start burning their draft cards), the Soviets can hunker down for a long time in Afghanistan, fortifying enclaves and forgetting about pacifying the countryside. As the Afghan army continues to hemorrhage, the Soviets may feel that they have no choice but to take over more and more of the burden of the fighting. Thus the day recedes when they can pull...
Sugar Bowl, January 1 at New Orleans. Hunker down, Dawgs. Herschel Walker, Rex Robinson, Buck Belue. Are these names out of a storybook? No, they're members of top-ranked, 11-0, Georgia. Notre Dame blew its shot at the national crown with a loss to USC last week, but retains a good chance to upend Vince Dooley's Bulldogs. The Irish magic will fall short, however, and Georgia will prevail, 19-13, despite Notre Dame's remarkably staunch defense...
...employees) after giving them a Sunday-night pep talk on the phone that one trade-paper publisher compared to "listening to Vince Lombardi." As a breed, record promo men look like blow-dry Willy Lomans. Dressed in satin warmup jackets that hype the latest company acts, they hunker down for long sessions with program directors of radio stations all over the country, pushing the product, offering occasional sweeteners that can range from free T shirts to gram bottles of coke. But, says Radio & Records Editor and Publisher Bob Wilson, "gifts alone can't get a record played more than...
...might work our way through a bottomless cup of coffee and a stack of chocolate chip pancakes in relative quiet, unhassled by anything more complicated than figuring out the tip. Lulled by the reassuring buzz of the enormous glowing purple fly killer on the wall, I only wanted to hunker down over my order, and check out my fellow urban refugees who crowded the place. As the night went on, however, the crowd grew stranger. Any hope of calm was destroyed, and a hasty retreat became the only course left...