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Showmanship lives on. Family Feud is a TV game show, which pits one family against another. Two years ago, in a brain storm of a California kind, the producers brought Hatfields and McCoys, ten of each, out to Hollywood. The contestants were dressed in period costumes, and a rented scrub hog was led into the studio so the quasi-historical argument could be staged. "Buddy, we all had them old-timey guns," says Dutch. "Hey, I'd have given them $200 for the one I had." The McCoys won three out of five. For a finale, the Hatfields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appalachia: Hatfields and McCoys | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

Altogether, Stockman found it profitable, as well as necessary, to scrub a four-day, 15-stop speaking tour of the Midwest and West, which he had scheduled to shore up his standing with Reagan loyalists. The OMB director did address a fund raiser in Denver, by telephone hookup from Washington, and said he "considered it a privilege to work 15 hours a day on some days as a soldier in the revolution coming to America." But he canceled all his personal appearances, to the annoyance of some Republican Congressmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back from the Woodshed | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...liftoff yesterday came at 10:10 a.m., ten minutes behind schedule, and eight days after low pressure in fuel cell tanks forced a "scrub" at the T-31 seconds point in the countdown...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, COMPILED FROM WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Problems With Electricity Cell Might Curtail Shuttle Flight | 11/13/1981 | See Source »

...quite-clean plates; right for dirty, so the left can pick up the stainless stell. A quick move to get glasses, cups, and deep-dished bowls to their separate dishwasher to get them cleaner; dump the detergent, slam the doors, turn the knobs; run to the sink and scrub the pot Gregory just left...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Working Class Zero | 10/22/1981 | See Source »

...star Conchata Ferrell, a virtuoso at New York City's Circle Repertory Theatre, is a near- newcomer to cinema. Earthy and sensible, heavy sleeves rolled up to heavy elbows, her Elinore can plow a field and scrub the laundry and milk a cow; she knows how to ride and she plans to learn how to rope. She is a frontier woman, pure and simple; she understands the various businesses of life and how to get on with them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Unspoiled America | 10/10/1981 | See Source »

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