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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recently the Harvard-Cornell hockey rivalry, which resumes tomorrow afternoon at Bright Center, has become better known for its in-the-stands antics than its on-the-ice show...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: This Game is More Than a Rivalry | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

This week's testimony by two Harvard computer workers before the federal grand jury investigating the "Cornell virus" is key to an indictment because, unlike in other criminal cases, prosecutors of computer crime must rely on circumstantial evidence to show guilt, experts on computer law said this week...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: `Virus' Inquiry Hears Vital Harvard Testimony | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

Naked Gun is the result of the original idea for the Police Squad! TV series. ZAZ wanted to make a feature film out of the idea but, as Zucker says, "we had no story." Instead, they created a half-hour television show. When the show was cancelled after only four weeks, they were dismayed but somewhat relieved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERVIEW | 12/2/1988 | See Source »

...show failed," says Weiss, "because you actually had to watch it." The series was filled with the kind of visual sight gags that made Airplane! a hit but which were ill suited to television viewers who are apt to iron a shirt or balance a checkbook instead of actually looking at the screen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERVIEW | 12/2/1988 | See Source »

...playwright's more mature romantic comedies, this is not the typical show of Cowardice. Blithe Spirit is about a man whose marriage is threatened by the ghost of his first wife...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stage Door | 12/2/1988 | See Source »

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