Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sitcom Full House, two would-be fathers frantically try to diaper a baby, using an electric fan, a roasting pan and a roll of paper towels. It is one of the dumbest scenes in one of the dumbest of the season's new shows, but a sharp-eyed viewer will notice a small breakthrough: the baby. Infants on prime-time TV are sometimes talked about, maybe even glimpsed from afar; yet with rare exceptions (O.K., Little Ricky), they have traditionally been nonpersons in a medium that prefers tots old enough to fire one-liners at the grownups...
...athletes, tennis people are given to imagining basketball players like Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan across the net from West Germany's Boris Becker. But this comfortable fantasy may have lost something since Brazil trimmed David Robinson, Danny Manning and the rest of America's college elite in the Pan Am Games. Some cry, "Whence cometh the next John McEnroe?" But others are pleased to remember that, if only by the accident of his father's army station, he cometh from Germany. McEnroe broke his old record for ugly behavior at the Open, earning $17,500 in fines...
...Would Gershwin's later music have made its way into the standard American repertory along with the works of Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber? Or would he have been considered an overreacher whose notes never quite shook off the reverberations of Tin Pan Alley...
...much of the winning, sweet sentiments of this kind abounded. One-Woman Basketball Team Hortencia Marcari of Brazil was an object of general delight, and, venturing into the stands once to protect their flag, the Cuban boxers brought an awesome presence to the final week. It seemed everyone's Pan Am hero though, Anglo and Latin, was a lefthanded baseball pitcher born with one finger on his right hand. The University of Michigan's Jim Abbott, 19, carried the flag and led the U.S. team in the opening ceremonies at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where roller skaters would later...
Hopeful Olympians, a ton of Cuban weightlifters and an uplifting U. S. pitcher grace the Pan Am Games. -- Scuffing nonsense...