Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season, NBC introduced nine series, all of which were canceled. Worse, most of the shows were about as sophisticated as a mud- trucking derby. "The saddest kind of failure," says Tartikoff, "is when you aim low and miss. At least when you aim higher and miss, you can hide behind your target and say, 'It's the audience's fault.' " Fortunately for Tartikoff, one night in the dead of that bleak winter his baby daughter was crying, and Dad decided to keep Mom company. He switched on The Tonight Show, where Dr. William H. Cosby, Ed.D. (U. Mass.) was telling...
...when these sunset adventurers take an outward-bound voyage toward a peaceful death, or into eternal life, this film has charted its serene course. One hopes that moviegoers will take Cocoon to their teenage hearts and make a box-office smash of the summer's sweetest, saddest, most exhilarating fable...
...Roots, TV will not plow this ground again. "What frightens me," says Gail Epstein, who reported on the case for the Atlanta Constitution, "is that people across America will see the movie and think that this is what really happened." If so, it will be the Atlanta tragedy's saddest footnote...
...saddest of ironies that I must write to you on this day to inform you of an incident which took place last evening in Harvard's Indoor Athletic Building...
...SADDEST FINISH. Swale, a game second-stringer from Woody Stephens' blighted barn, eclipsed the slightly damaged wonder horse Devil's Bag, who was treated to early retirement to protect a $36 million breeding future. Extraordinarily, but without showing extraordinary exertion, Swale won both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. Eight days later, probably owing to a heart lesion, he died...