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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Children's TV, of course, is not an unredeemed junk pile. PBS and cable offer much quality fare. Most of the networks' Saturday-morning shows are gently inoffensive (The Smurfs, Jim Henson's Muppet Babies) and occasionally adventurous (Pee-wee's Playhouse). Some of the wit and imagination of pre-TV animation have even resurfaced this season in CBS's Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, from Filmmaker Ralph Bakshi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Zapping Back at Children's | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...signaled preliminarily for Columbia," Cloe said. "But I talked to one of the other officials who saw the whole play. It was unfortunate that it was reported incorrectly. Columbia never had the ball. When we got to the bottom of the pile, the Brown player...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia Comes Up Short Again, Falls to Brown | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...this point the correspondence breaks off. Under a pile of dirty laundry in Wise's room I also found a smoking revolver with fingerprints indicating it had been fired by a studious Harvard senior. On the wall, a message was scrawled in lipstick (in violation of dormitory law, by the way): "Stop me before I violate grad school ethics". Under the words, tell-tale scratch marks...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Ask Not What You Can Do for the Kennedy School | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

Americans loved Reagan because he was genial and optimistic, not a molecule of the neurotic in his body. He liked to tell a slightly peculiar story about a boy who on Christmas morning finds a pile of manure in his room and says brightly, "I just know there's a pony in here somewhere." He was coated with Teflon: blame never attached itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Who's in Charge? | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...inside of the chamber remained a mystery until early the next morning, when the video camera was finally lowered into place. What the scientists saw & on the monitor looked like a pile of lumber under reed matting. Even so, recalled Tans, "as soon as we saw it, we knew it was a boat." Tohamy Mahmoud Ali, an Egyptian worker who had helped excavate the first vessel, broke into excited Arabic as he recognized the disassembled ship lying in its narrow pit. At one end were several upright pieces, perhaps parts of the prow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Probing The Chambers of Cheops | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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