Word: pyles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, many students who are staying at Harvard this weekend say they are not doing so by choice. "I wish I were leaving," says Lindsey S. Pyle '95. "The only reason I'm staying is that a friend is coming to row. I actually had to discourage another friend from coming down this weekend. I told her it would be best to come some other time...
Cinema: From Maverick and The Flintstones to Gomer Pyle and Mission: Impossible, rerun mania grips Hollywood...
...projects just keep on coming, as studios ransack America's collective subliterate unconscious for new hits from old shows: American Gladiators (with Cliffhanger's Renny Harlin producing); Bewitched (Penny Marshall); The Brady Bunch; F Troop; Gentle Ben; Gilligan's Island; Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.; The Green Hornet; Hawaii Five-0; Hogan's Heroes (from writer- producer John Hughes); The Invaders; Lost in Space; My Favorite Martian; The Rifleman; The Saint and many, many more...
When public TV was launched, there were only the three networks. You could watch Gomer Pyle or Land of the Giants or Lawrence Welk. Public TV was singular, glorious, redemptive. Today, of course, there is a democratic hurly- burly glut of cable and home video. Imagine if Americans had been presented in 1968 with a referendum: either a single channel broadcasting a mix of news, documentaries, children's shows and performance, or else a dozen intermittently worthy channels, two with nothing but news, two with nothing but congressional sessions, one with nothing but kids' shows, several with music, two with...
...They came up here and asked us to shut off our lights", Courtney T. Pyle '93 said. "But they've been completely nice. They were angels...