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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing that distinguishes advertising for basketball in Puerto Rico from anywhere else is the message board above the backboard where you would expect the 30-second shot clock...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Advertisers' Big Bucks Changing the Face of Most Sports | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...board remains predominantly blank--until someone puts up a shot. Then one of three or four advertisements gets flashed upon the screen. Once, when a game was getting out of reach, I was taking side bets to whether "Lipton Iced Tea" or "Es Para Usted" would be the next message on the board...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Advertisers' Big Bucks Changing the Face of Most Sports | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...front-of-an-audience. The spontaneity, the timing--everything--is different. In a recent interview Williams said that during the filming in Thailand a group of American expatriate women were on hand in a nearby sound booth, their reactions piped into an earphone Williams wore out of camera shot. This arrangement, it was hoped, would inject some vitality into the bloodless recording sessions; but in the end the plan was abandoned, as it ruined Williams' timing...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Go Back to Bed | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

...from live, Williams' routines are more entertaining than most A.M. banter. But even so, the rest of Good Morning, Vietnam is incongruous enough with the comedy sequences that, taken as a whole, the film is difficult to digest. Director Barry Levinson, ecshewing the by-now-traditional shots of Vietnamese villages being burned and peasants shot, intersperses the Saigon sequences with dream-like footage of patrol boats cruising, soldiers milling about, helicopters taking...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Go Back to Bed | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

...didn't expect to participate," she said."I didn't think that we had any chance to beat them. But the team was really psyched up for this meet, and it encouraged me to do well." Men Shot Down By Cadets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thinclads Split Dual Meet at Army | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

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