Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scheduled to weigh in this week) are a conservative, back-to-basics lot. The theme is old-fashioned, mass-audience entertainment, the kinds of shows the whole family can watch. Sitcoms next fall will favor tight-knit family units rather than funny workplaces, acerbic yuppies or angst-ridden teens. No quirky small towns, few hard-edged action shows and, surprisingly, only two new series with blacks in the leading roles (though several from last year's bumper crop are returning). If it all sounds retrogressive and old hat, network programmers might reply by paraphrasing a line from the Clinton campaign...
Gays, Shilts notes with confidence, have served well since the American Revolution, although his evidence for Baron von Steuben's predilections does not support the designation "gay general." But even if the baron had ridden sidesaddle into Valley Forge, it is unlikely that he would have been turned away. George Washington desperately needed his Prussian expertise...
They mean it, too. Agitprop works hard to make all aspects of culture accessible, expanding their target population beyond cliques of angst-ridden artistes to the entire Harvard-Radcliffe community; beyond the usual repertoire of painting and sculpture to live music, talks given by professors, graphic design, performance art and cheerleadings and beyond. Tryptych's exhibition site in the basement of Memorial Church to the open-aired squash courts at Adams House into the previously unexplored realms of the Busch-Reisinger, Fogg and Sackler Museums, the Carpenter Center and even the steps of Widener. (Next year they plan to invade...
...puts Harvard stop the 500 mark, an improbable accomplishment, after the team Jurched to a 1-7 start. But the Crimson has ridden a six-game winning streak back to respectability...
Flash forward to the year 2000. Seinfeld, the NBC sitcom starring Jerry Seinfeld as one of a quartet of angst-ridden New Yorkers, is finally going off the air after 10 acclaimed seasons. For the gala final episode, Julia Louis- Dreyfus makes a return appearance as Elaine (the movie career didn't work out) and meets her successor in the cast, Melanie Mayron. In a typically Seinfeldian life-imitates-art riff, George (Jason Alexander), now head of network programming, tells Jerry his sitcom is being canceled. Kramer (Michael Richards), elected to Congress in the eighth season, finds himself involved...