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Muhammad Ali, a puffy and nearly immobile promoter for a new cable channel called American Sports Classics, sat in a director's chair as a line of people trooped up, one by one, to sit next to him, shake his hand and get a Polaroid memento of the occasion. Comedy Central enlivened the floor at the cable-TV industry's national convention two weeks ago with an array of carnival games, like Skee Ball. CBS, pushing its new cable channel, Eye on People, took a more subdued approach, with a booth featuring plush blue carpeting, comfortable seating and lots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: DOES THE EYE HAVE IT? | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...cold that I just couldn't shake," Hartmann says. "'Ron,' I said, 'you're a doctor. Why can't I get rid of this cold?' He looked at me, and said, 'Frank, what else is going on in your life...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Ronald David Continues His 'Fantasy Rescue Mission' | 4/4/1997 | See Source »

...great Vince Lombardi once said, "Winning is a habit." For Harvard women's basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, it seems that winning is a habit she can't quite shake...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: Harvard's Very Own Coach K | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

...Play With Dolls," a quasi-ballad sung by Jed Eyenite, with its hero's admission that whenever there are brawls, "I'll be skipping 'round my garden, twirling parasols"; "Stick Out Your Chest," an ensemble number with lines like "You gotta pucker your lips,/ Throw out your tush,/ And shake your hips," and choreography to match (imagine a huge egg sticking out its, um, tush); and "I Am Not Adroit at Love," a torch song performed by 2N2N2R6 (Andrew A. Burlinson '97), a maladroit droid who laments, "I wanted his heart but he gave me his mouse...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Drinks Before, Not After | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

...Morris, there comes a moment when the President, sick of struggling to pay for the TV advertising that Morris had started more than a year before Election Day, unburdens himself: "I can't think. I can't act. I can't do anything but go to fund raisers and shake hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEP RIGHT UP | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

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