Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sensitive San Francisco cop, is one of the season's top-rated new series and an ambitious pioneer of TV's newest form, the "dramedy." A potential spin-off is already in the works, focusing on a dwarf private eye named Nick Derringer, to be introduced in a segment next week. In addition, Bochco has signed a development deal with ABC that calls for him to create ten more series over the next nine years. Even if only two or three of the shows make it, Bochco's stamp will be on a sizable chunk of the prime-time schedule...
...sumptuous salad bar. The connecting sequence, by Bill Bryden, takes way too long to let John Hurt dress up as Pagliaccio. Charles Sturridge's essay for La Forza del Destino -- an urban mural of children's faces -- is all dour style, a Bugsy Malone in Nighttown. The Bruce Beresford segment, from Erich Korngold's Die tote Stadt, is content to watch two young people disrobe in an English mansion. Robert Altman had the inspiration to show a restless 17th century audience at Rameau's Les Boreades, then neglected to develop his night-at-the-opera sketch with any coherence. Derek...
...takes hustle like the delivery boy's to get ahead these days in the pizza business, where competition is as red hot as a pie straight from the oven. The pizza segment of the fast-food industry, overshadowed in the past by the marketing battles among the hamburger chains, has sprung to life with speedy- delivery contests, price wars and new-product campaigns. "It's an all-out conflagration," says Charles Henderson, vice president of marketing for Godfather's Pizza, the fifth largest U.S. chain (586 outlets). "This will make burger wars look like a neighborhood skirmish." Rather than fight...
...show marks the culmination of the year's work. But participants say that the bi-weekly classes--and a special Saturday segment for more advanced students--are the most significant part of the Citystep program because they can have a direct impact on the lives of the school children...
...black underclass abandoned to their misery, the homeless sleeping on the streets, factories closing and the affluent unabashed at flaunting their possessions, there is a persistent sense that something is awry with the nation, something far deeper than what party is in control of the White House. "One segment of the population is doing well," said Anthony Iwaskiewizc, a Milwaukee businessman backing Jackson in this week's primary. "The other is doing poorly. There doesn't seem to be any middle ground. Jackson is going to bring notice to the bigger politicians that there are people's needs, not just...