Word: rerun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DRESS GRAY (NBC, Aug. 21 and 22, 9 p.m. EDT). Gore Vidal's script brings intelligence and bite to a tale of shady doings at a military academy. One rerun worth saluting...
Libra was in the TV room. As she flicked on the set I saw the shadowy outline of two talking heads. "Oh, look," she said, siren-like. "PBS has a rerun of your favorite show. Want to watch...
...strong," said Pat Robertson. He said the vice president had run a "fabulous race," and added, "The mantle of Ronald Reagan has passed to George Bush." The former television evangelist said he would remain in the race, but talked in terms of expanding his support for a campaign rerun...
Because it was the first to use film instead of live transmission--then the TV industry did not have the technology to save live shows for high quality rebroadcast--I Love Lucy invented the possibility of the rerun...
Socially, Doug is a dependable loser. His technicolor fantasies fail to arouse young women, who think of him as a black-and-white rerun; the older ones are even more bathetic than he is. Worse, the mirror reminds Doug that the half-century mark looms: "50! 50 was General MacArthur . . . the school principal . . . 50 was Abby Meltzner, the delicatessen waiter his parents knew, who retired with the shakes. 'Put down the glass, Abby,' his boss had said. 'You have to go home.' 'I'll go home,' Abby replied. 'But I can't put down the glass...