Word: rerun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government monopoly to a private company, signed a new contract to buy 10,000 telephones from ITT. Nonetheless, many American telecommunications executives considered these gestures to be mere tokens. Whenever Japan unveils a program to boost imports, many foreign businessmen get a feeling of seeing an I Love Lucy rerun for the tenth time. Nakasone's new plan is the sixth trade- liberalization package announced since 1981. Yet Japan's imports have decreased by nearly 5% in the past three years, and booming exports have more than doubled its annual trade surplus, from $20 billion to $44 billion. In many...
...tabloid, in particular mooning over a free-floating couple, Susan and Jim, who arrange their assignations, all over the country, by placing ads there. Whatever problems they might have must be more interesting than getting a new radio installed in the Mustang or mastering whatever recipe the Julia Child rerun is offering. Perhaps if Roberta could spy on their next advertised meeting she could...
...play only falls flat during one scene, a musical duet between an old couple. It has the touching feeling of a rerun of The Waltons. However, this scene is nearly saved by the original music of Pat Romano. While the lines and lyrics just be there, the music conveys the emotion...
MOST PUBLIC-SPIRITED NETWORK: ABC, which interrupted its coverage of the Democratic National Convention to show a rerun of Hart to Hart...
...tougher when a friendly man in a nice suit latches on to a little boy and growls, "I gotcha!" The roomful of first-graders turns thumbs down, but not on the villain. They think the boy has made himself too easy a mark. He gets higher grades in a rerun by standing back and shouting, "Let me alone!" as the man, played by Teacher Jon Merritt, tries to lure him into a make-believe...