Word: knights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Knots Landing) along with newcomers like Bob, the umpteenth Bob Newhart comedy; and on Saturday night, where stay-at-homes can flip between all three networks and find such anachronistic offerings as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (Jane Seymour as a doctor on the American frontier), Covington Cross (a medieval knight and his family) and Crossroads (Robert Urich traveling the country in a reprise of Route...
According to Perot and his supporters, the political world is a mess. Gridlock and stagnation rule the day. The only people with voices are the special interests represented by the Washington lobbyists who are corrupting our glorious democratic system. Perot is the White Knight--ready to ride in from his outsider, above-the-fray, private-sector perch and purify democracy...
Representative democracy is too messy for Perot--and so are the checks that go with it. If we become disillusioned with President Perot, where will we turn? To a cowed Congress? To another White Knight...
...week's final episode of The Cosby Show may get a shock. Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner), a junior-high student when the series began, is graduating from college. Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe), once a pudgy preteen, is in college too, and has weathered a broken engagement. Cute little Rudy (Keshia Knight Pulliam) has ceded the spotlight to a passel of even cuter, littler kids: Olivia, 6, stepdaughter of No. 2 daughter Denise (who is married but doesn't appear on the show) and two tykes who belong to eldest daughter Sondra (who is married but does). Still with...
...motion puppeteering of such effects geniuses as Willis O'Brien and Ray Harryhausen -- is just a decade old. The Disney film TRON, which took place inside a video game, was the first to explore the new technique. In the Steven Spielberg-produced Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), a computer-generated knight wielding a sword leaped out of a stained-glass window and menaced a priest. Morphing, the big news in special effects, made its debut in Willow (1988): a reclining tiger is smoothly transformed into a sleeping woman...