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They do, but there are rib-splitting complications involving studio moguls, frenetic decomposers of music and lyrics, and the amorous son of a British lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hollywood Hotfoot | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...first game was just about ending, but Varney's day was only beginning; new Sox manager Paul Richards had tabbed Varney to catch the nightcap. Before donning the tools of ignorance, Varney admitted, "Sure, they rib you a little about going to Harvard, but it's not too bad. Most of the guys have a college education, anyway...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Savoir-Faire | 4/8/1976 | See Source »

...juicy, well-marbled rib roast on the cover of the Atlantic Monthly's March issue looks tasty enough, but the magazine did not appeal to executives at Safeway Stores, Inc., the nation's largest supermarket chain (1975 sales: $9.7 billion). After a memo alerting stores to the issue went out from the chain's Oakland, Calif, headquarters last month, some Safeway stores removed the magazine from their newsstand shelves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shorting the Sale | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...nights the network swamps the ratings-are not much different from the other networks' fare. ABC's top shows are only too familiar comedies such as Happy Days and its offspring Laverne and Shirley, sci-fi fantasies like The Six Million Dollar Man, from whose stainless-steel rib was cloned the Bionic Woman, and a lineup of crime that includes Starsky and Hutch and S. W.A. T. ABC has placed at least four shows in the top ten since the start of the second season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Hot Network | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...look like waxworks. President Ford falls over all the time on SN, crying, "No problem." Viewers are urged to send samples of marijuana to be tested for quality. Don Vito Corleone is trapped in a therapy session with a blonde who screams, "You're blocking, Vito"; female hardhats rib male passersby: "Hi, studmuffins. Watch out, joy chunks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flakiest Night of the Week | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

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