Word: minored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clans have never gone completely out of style, but they have changed over the years. The genre's archetype -- stable, well-scrubbed, usually small- town families that deal with minor domestic problems that are always resolved, gently, before the final credits -- was established in such classic series of the 1950s and early '60s as Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver, Ozzie and Harriet and The Donna Reed Show. In the early 1970s, under the influence of Norman Lear (All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons), TV families became more realistic and contemporary, their problems more substantial and socially relevant...
Every September, as the baseball and football seasons converge, newcomers arrive to begin inheriting a game, minor-league baseball players in buses, major college football players in limousines. If they have always been connected, this year they seem entwined...
...Flames will keep two net-minders and send two to each of their minor league clubs. Both Blair and Dadswell are certainly hoping for a chance to play in Moncton, New Brunswick in the American Hockey League--and hoping to avoid a trip to Salt Lake City of the lowly International Hockey League...
Which is little--very little--consolation to Harvard's opponents. Ivy League soccer is good college soccer. And Columbia specifically has often found itself among the top-ranked teams in the country, so it wasn't minor league collegians that Catliff pulled his four-goal performance against...
Bochco's career has stumbled since the initial success of Hill Street Blues. His much touted 1983 series about a minor- league baseball team, Bay City Blues, was canceled after a few low-rated weeks. In March 1985 he was fired from Hill Street, reportedly after disputes with his bosses at MTM Enterprises about cost overruns. Nevertheless, NBC is giving his new series, L.A. Law, a double-barreled send-off. The two-hour pilot episode premiering this week will have an unusual encore presentation in the Saturday Night Live time period two weeks later...