Word: shows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WELCOME to Daytona Beach, Florida. We are coming to you live from Checkers, home of the famous Wednesday Night Wet T-shirt Contest. The dance floor has cleared and everyone is ready for the start of the show. We'll bring you all the action after this brief message...
...What a show. Let's hear it for Spring Break 88! (cheers). Let's hear it for Judy (a few claps) and for Cindy (wild applause...
That same turn-the-other-cheek liberalism, that deep reluctance to directly confront Jackson, a black man, continued to plague Michael Dukakis. The morning after the Connecticut primary, the victorious Massachusetts Governor appeared with Jackson on the Today show. Jackson immediately seized control by congratulating Dukakis, then adding dismissively, "You did well with your home-field advantage." Dukakis laughed nervously and fell silent. The incident was an apt symbol for the Dukakis dilemma: the need for the earnest gears-and-levers technocrat to combat the powerful passions of a black preacher...
Last year's Fleer cards color-coded a strike zone to show where batters connected with or pitchers threw a fastball, a breaking ball, and an off-speed pitch. Baseball purists hated it because it was so subjective (ratings were performed by "the Scouts"), but it was corny like baseball ought to be. This year the Fleer color graphic isn't as corny: each player's batting average or ERA is given for day, night, home and away games. These are cards you can sit down with for the Game of the Week...
...other business, council officers saidyesterday they were trying to decide whether tosign a contract with Chuck Berry for an April 30show at Bright Hockey Center. Berry wants $25,000for an hour-long show, and council leaders aredebating whether accepting the contract would be awise business decision, Mandery said