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...formal round-robin league play, however, the Tigers dropped to second after three straight years in first place as Columbia finished with a .586 winning percentage to Princeton's .575. Harvard finished third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lions and Tigers Leading the Pack In Ivy Sports Safari | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...season are a mostly flavorless assortment of retreads, spin-offs and ripoffs; there are no innovative programs and few fresh faces in sight. Though the past few years were not much better, they did at least offer such novel phenomena as Soap, Lifeline, Suzanne Somers and Robin Williams. The 1979-80 network lineup is so tame that it even lacks that saving spice of commercial television -triumphantly bad taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: 1 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

E.D.T.) People who go to the improvisational comedy clubs in New York City and Los Angeles know that Jimmy Brogan is probably the best comic to hit that circuit since Robin Williams. ABC wisely signed him up, only to cast him in this tired Mork & Mindy retread about an angel who moves to earth. Unlike the manic Williams, who makes a guest appearance in Blue's first episode, Brogan is a quiet, reflective comedian. In his stand-up act he functions as a bemused straight man, playing off the audience, and does not deliver a set routine. ABC would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: 1 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...script creates an exhausting round robin of ethical and personal conflicts for its hero. Should Tynan lead the fight against a racist Supreme Court nominee, or should he remain silent out of deference to an old colleague (Melvyn Douglas)? Should he carry on an affair with a bright Southern civil rights lawyer (Meryl Streep) or remain faithful to his equally bright and attractive wife (Barbara Harris)? Should he pursue his presidential ambitions or spend more time at home with his increasingly estranged kids? Not only do these dilemmas have the aura of the casebook about them, but they are also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Split Ticket | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...Robin Lane and the Chartbusters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: around town | 8/10/1979 | See Source »

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