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...this party, you three, was a party that would put any New York or L.A. scene to shame. Ric Ocasik. Paulina. David Byrne. I even recognized some of the heavies from HMV and Tower. And who says that Boston doesn't have night life to speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WFNX Party Proves Boston Has Nightlife | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...outset of the worst winter ever recorded there. By the time the starving survivors straggled into Sutter's Fort, THE DONNER PARTY had written one of the darkest chapters in American history, a tale of humans reduced to the most desperate circumstances -- including, famously, cannibalism. For this PBS documentary, Ric Burns, a co-producer with his brother Ken of The Civil War, uses the same techniques as that series -- archival photographs, readings from diaries and letters -- to re-create the story with harrowing scrupulousness. A grueling, unforgettable trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Nov. 2, 1992 | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

...Burns boys are TV's hottest brother act. PBS's blockbuster The Civil War, which Ken directed and Ric helped write, was the TV event of 1990. Ric was responsible for this smaller slice of Americana, a wistful look at the glory days of America's greatest amusement park. The turn-of-the-century film clips were nostalgic yet startling, the documentary enthralling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...Burns boys are TV's hottest brother act. PBS's blockbuster The Civil War, which Ken directed and Ric helped write, was the TV event of 1990. Ric was responsible for this smaller slice of Americana, a wistful look at the glory days of America's greatest amusement park. The turn-of-the-century film clips were nostalgic yet startling, the documentary enthralling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991:Television | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...this has happened despite the objections of highly-respected dolphin trainers over the feasibility of the program. Indeed, Flipper's trainer Ric O'Barry, while admitting that dolphins are highly intelligent, added that they are also highly disobedient and unpredictable. O'Barry notes, "[Let's just say] I wouldn't want them guarding half our nuclear arsenal...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Flipper Joins the Navy | 4/11/1989 | See Source »

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