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...country. Its 18 hours of daily programming boast a cornucopia of country culture: 30 minutes of live music a night on Nashville After Hours; 1-40 Paradise, a country comedy set in a Tennessee truck stop; Dancin' U.S.A. (watch rhinestone cowboys do the "Cotton-Eyed Joe"); Fandango, a quiz program testing contestants on their knowledge of country trivia. Unlike MTV, which is essentially a video jukebox featuring rock video clips, the Nashville Network has a menu of original programming along the lines of a full-service network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Country Comes to Cable | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...would be widespread disregard for a change to 21." Some educators dismiss raising the drinking age on the grounds that it fails to address the teen-age "attitude" problem. Says Faye Gordon, coordinator of a Brookline, Mass., project in the public school system that uses such devices as a quiz show called You Bet Your Beer to persuade teen-agers not to drink and drive: "These kids are drinking, and some are going to continue to drink even if you raise the legal age to 40." College students reiterate the same argument they used effectively in the early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightcap | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...They lost. When not enough attention was being paid to Harris by the matchmakers at Madison Square Garden, they sent a man around in a gorilla suit. Their boxing backgrounds before 1976: as a child Rappaport was aced out for the boxing category on The $64,000 Question TV quiz show by Psychologist Joyce Brothers, who had memorized the Ring record book; and Jones is a former champion of Camp Chicapee in Penn sylvania. This is a funny business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Puncher Goes for It: Gerry Cooney and Larry Holmes | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

College Bowl--nationally organized as the "varsity sport of the mind" by the Association of College Unions-International--was a popular Sunday afternoon TV trivia quiz show years ago, pitting teams of three students against each other for the academic honor of their school...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Trivia Champions | 5/1/1982 | See Source »

...tries desperately to comprehend his passion for music and his rage for order-"How could you file my James Brown record under J?" Eddie (Steve Guttenberg) is ready to get married, with few qualms and one small condition: that his fiancee pass the world's toughest football quiz. Boogie (Mickey Rourke) will never be married: he has too much fun playing the sensitive stud and limping through life with one foot in the underworld. Fenwick (Kevin Bacon) is beyond marriage: proto-hip and self-destructive, he seems to be waiting for the '60s to explode around him. Billy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Five Friends | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

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