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Meanwhile strong safety Aron Natale recorded 5 tackles and an assist of his own including a sack of Columbia quarterback Bobby Thomason which resulted in a fumble recovered by the Crimson...

Author: By Ed Perez-giz, | Title: A Few Gridiron Ponderings | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

Today's Olympics are reminiscent of a labor-union picnic: sack races, rolling-pin-throwing contests, you name it. We should return to the classic Olympics, to the original Greek concepts--wrestling, swimming, track and field--and forget the embellishments. ROBERT E. DAEHN Sanford, Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 26, 1996 | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

...Heavy, Tyler is the siren who leads a sad-sack cook (Pruitt Taylor Vince) to a full realization of the sweet misery of life. His bar-diner, which often looks deserted except for one resident grouse, is the anti-Cheers; it should be called Blahs. Heavy is a mood piece, which means there's not much going on and ain't ever gonna be. The characters shop, eat, sleep, do some world-class moping and, in general, wait for something the hell to happen. And all that happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ONE LIFE TO LIV--BUT CAN SHE ACT? | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

Hill is a transplanted Australian with little reverence for the national pastime. He was recently quoted in the New York Times Magazine as telling his executives, "If anybody talks about any dead guys during a broadcast, I'll sack 'em." (Good thing Fox didn't televise Cal Ripken's 2,131st straight game last year: "Cal Ripken has now played in more consecutive games than...anybody.") Hill explains himself: "What I meant when I said that was I didn't want the announcers just to drop names of dead guys without putting them in context. We now have someone going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: BRAINSTORM: WHAT IF TV SPORTS WERE FUN? | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

...country. Authorities have been asking soldiers to just lay down their arms and try to find a way to sustain themselves in a peaceful society, but they do not have the resources. If you are a 20-year-old militia man who can get a television and a sack of grain in five minutes with your AK-47, why are you going to put it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sliding Toward Anarchy | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

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