Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fresno boldly disdains a laugh track, and if it were not for the network's tongue-in-cheek promos, a casual viewer might miss the joke. The cast plays it expertly deadpan, with only an occasional wink at the audience. Satiric jabs at specific soaps are few and relatively tame. The California wines of Falcon Crest have puckered into raisins. The Southern accents (in California?) have migrated from Dallas. Garr's drop-dead wardrobe and a female catfight are straight out of Dynasty. And when Tiffany searches for her father at a costume party, she assembles...
...although it will miss the services of these players, Harvard should still be a solid bet to win its sixth straight Ivy League title and to take the ECAC crown that eluded it last year...
...Maretz's miss rendered the plays meaningless, but for a brief, shining moment Harvard didn't look like a 2-6 football team...
...time for one last centennial dance with Miss Liberty. Despite the bursting-in-air celebration on July 4, her actual birthday came last week. The threeday after-party party included a ceremony saluting Americans of varied ethnic backgrounds that were not all acknowledged in July. Among the 80 honorees: Joe DiMaggio, Muhammad Ali and Barbara Walters. Next day a glittering concert and dinner dance at New York City's Lincoln Center featured Charles Aznavour, Julio Iglesias, Placido Domingo and the premiere of a new cantata by Composer William Schuman. When all was conclusively said and exhaustively done, the Statue...
Many investors are afraid to sell lest they miss out on the next leg of the bull market. Indeed, some Wall Street forecasters, encouraged by improving economic growth and a continuation of low interest rates, are predicting that the Dow Jones industrial average will pass the 2000 mark next year. For many shareholders, stocks remain the most attractive investments available, particularly since interest rates on bonds and bank accounts are relatively low at this time. Says James Campbell, an investor who heads a Manhattan photo-reproduction company: "Imagine I sold and took my profit and tax savings right now. What...