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...played heroes from foreign cultures (Robin Hood, Zorro, D'Artagnan, the Thief of Bagdad), yet he was always an American abroad, showing the Old World how to win the fair maiden, cure each injustice. And he'd do it with a laugh--at the fix he was in, at the bulky chore of filmmaking, at the sheer joy of being Doug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE KING OF HOLLYWOOD | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

After a long round-robin session, only four men's foilers remained. Chang faced off against St. John's Brian Moroney in the semifinals and defeated him, 15-5. However, he couldn't do the same against Wayne State's Thorstein Becker in the finals, falling by a 15-2 count...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Chan Highlights M. Fencing; Women Send Three to NCAAs | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

Things were not as bright for Harvard at the New England Team Race Championships, also at Tufts. Harvard went 4-5 in the round-robin portion, and the fifth-place finish kept the Crimson out of the championship rounds...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Sailing Has Two Teams At Nat'ls | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...themselves from the bigger, established players in the TV game. In a classic case of counterprogramming, the two mininetworks will between them air 11 ethnic-themed shows in the fall--nearly twice the big-network total. Some of them star familiar names like Sherman Hemsley, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Robin Givens. One, UPN's Homeboys in Outer Space, is a must-see for the high-concept title alone. Some are refugees from the Big Four: Moesha, an urban sitcom starring teen singer Brandy Norwood, was developed for CBS, but after the network passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: TV'S BLACK FLIGHT | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...Elizabeth Dole save Sunday mornings for reflection, reviewing one week and surveying the next. The weekend before last, over brunch at their Watergate apartment with Bob's daughter Robin, the Doles had plenty to sort through. The night before, comedian Al Franken had acidly observed that the only voting bloc Dole was winning at the moment was agribusiness executives. Elizabeth Dole turned to her husband and said he needed to make some changes. It was time, she said, to put some "adult supervision" into place at a campaign peopled by aides in their middle 30s, many of whom have never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: CAN LIDDY SAVE BOB'S CAMPAIGN? | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

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