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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...redhead with the elastic face and saucer eyes was the model for scores of comic TV females to follow. She and her show, moreover, helped define a still nascent medium. Before I Love Lucy, TV was feeling its way, adapting forms from other media. Live TV drama was an outgrowth of Broadway theater; game shows were transplanted from radio; variety shows and early comedy stars like Milton Berle came out of vaudeville. I Love Lucy was unmistakably a television show, and Ball the perfect star for the small screen. "I look like everybody's idea of an actress," she once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUCILLE BALL: The TV Star | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

Traditional phone companies provide long-distance access through the public switched telephone network, or PSTN. This network has existed for decades, an outgrowth of the early switched networks of Ma Bell...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: TechTalk | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

Lansing and the other organizers of the film festival, Maya F. Durrett and Rebecca S. Sockbeson, are all students in GSE's Risk and Prevention program. This film festival is an outgrowth of their class, "Issues in Contemporary Native American Education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Fest Honors Native Americans | 4/10/1998 | See Source »

Zelikow's efforts to make the era come alive for his students is an outgrowth of his own philosophy about academic work...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cold War Warrior Listens To Kennedy | 9/18/1997 | See Source »

...outgrowth of the case was a rapprochement, at least in public, between Betty Shabazz and Farrakhan, who helped raise funds for the family's legal expenses. An arrangement with prosecutors allowed Qubilah to avoid trial but also required her to undergo psychiatric, drug and alcohol treatment. She moved to San Antonio and began working at a radio station partly owned by former Manhattan borough president Percy Sutton, a family friend who was once her father's lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BETTY SHABAZZ: THE TROUBLES SHE'S SEEN | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

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