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Indeed, Falk seemed friendly and easy-going as he signed a slew of autographs and posed for pictures with fans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Falk Is Named 'Gentleman Of The Year' | 4/2/1996 | See Source »

...particularly handsome, yet he gets Valentine's Day and get-well cards--and poems--from women of all ages. His breeding is nice though hardly impeccable--Mama was Solar Slew, a daughter of Seattle Slew, but Papa was a rolling stone named Palace Music. Only 18 months ago, Cigar was a nondescript bay five-year-old with two victories in 13 starts. Today he is the nicest thing to happen to horse racing since Secretariat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: THE SMOKE FROM CIGAR | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...Liggett Group, for instance, spent an estimated $75 million fighting the Cipollone case in New Jersey; though the jury awarded the husband of Rose Cipollone, who died of lung cancer, $400,000 in damages, that verdict was overturned on appeal. Tobacco experts insist they are undaunted by the slew of new lawsuits, and they point out that Jeffrey Wigand has yet to be cross-examined. In fact, five law firms are representing B&W in its breach-of-contract lawsuit against Wigand, who notes dryly, "I'm just a little schoolteacher, and they are how many? Pretty even odds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO BLUES | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

After intermission, during which the slew of curtain-based advertisements again confronted the audience, the show's plot appeared ready for a quick finish. But the cloying musical numbers and strings of bad puns continued, this time made still more unbearable by the addition of tired jokes about Yale and Wellesley...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Pudding Show Is a Recipe for Disgrace | 2/21/1996 | See Source »

...centralized rating concept as too rigid. They support instead one of several devices currently in development that enable parents to make their own choices of which shows to block out. fcc chairman Reed Hundt, a V-chip booster, contends that it will be only "the first of a slew of products. I predict remote-control devices with selection programs. There will be a variety of ways to receive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: CHIPS AHOY | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

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