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...quarterback Cozza has a decision to make on the successor to the very successful Darin Kehler. He also has to decide whether or not to continue with the wishbone offense that Kehler orchestrated so well. The most experienced quarterback in the lot is Kehler's backup, senior Nick Crawford...

Author: By Josie Karp, | Title: Take Your Pick in the Ivy League | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

SECULAR SOUNDS. Fearing a Fundamentalist backlash, Columbia changed the title of Nick Lowe's 1978 Jesus of Cool album to Pure Pop for Now People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock-'N'-Roll Cover-Up | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

...Honey, I'm Home represents a new trend in the TV industry: cooperation between those instinctive rivals, the broadcast networks and cable. The half- hour sitcom is being produced for ABC by Nickelodeon, the children's cable network (which will rerun the episodes on its Nick at Nite channel). The gimmick: a wholesome 1950s TV family materializes in 1991 New Jersey, where they find that their sweetness-and-light television fantasy life (which they can revert to by switching themselves into black and white) clashes with the real world of muggers, homeless people and feminist single mothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beating The Summertime Blahs | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

...producers than for performers. Ben Riller is an impresario with a string of hits behind him and catastrophe in sight: he wants to produce a play in verse. (There actually was a rhyming comedy on Broadway this season, La Bete, and it bombed.) Short on cash, Ben borrows from Nick Manucci, a colorful old mafioso who wants 10% interest weekly, plus 50% of the show. As events hurtle toward opening night, agitations grow and Ben becomes more and more indecisive until, like Hamlet, he begins having conversations with his late father. Fortunately, they are witty exchanges by two convincing characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Reading | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

...Nick Sweeney, the burly Irishman with the scars on his knee and memories of a back brace etched in his brain, uncoiled at the Heptagonal Championships on May 4 in Princeton, N.J. for a stunning 189'8" toss...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: Throwing Injuries Aside | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

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