Word: soured
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McNabb's strained muscle started out the Princeton tournament on a sour note for the Crimson, but Granat and Parker's sterling performances turned the weekend into a positive step for Harvard...
...suddenly, an enormous amount is riding on it. NBC, the onetime kingpin of prime time, has seen its fortunes turn sour almost overnight. Its biggest hit of the '80s, The Cosby Show, took early retirement last spring, while several other veterans -- The Golden Girls, Matlock and In the Heat of the Night -- were given their unconditional release. (All were later picked up by rivals.) The network's last remaining Top 10 hit, Cheers, will call it quits at the end of this season; highly regarded younger shows like Seinfeld have not lived up to ratings expectations; and with the loss...
...Clinton vended optimism; now he must become a pitchman for austerity. He sold the nation a miracle product, All-New Hope: it gives you cleaner, cheaper government with a fresh minty flavor. But if it doesn't get the stains out, the electorate's high hopes could sour into despair. Then the man called ( Hope will become the man called Hype -- nothing more than a baby-boomer Babbitt. All the big stars and better angels will leave him out in the spotlight, stranded, unmasked...
...President ended the week regretting the sour finale to his Inaugural week, then he was missing a great opportunity. The outcry over Zoe Baird was a noisy reminder of how deeply voters wanted to believe his promises about a new way of doing business in the capital. It would have been a sad start to a historic presidency if Americans had been willing to accept anything less than the ideals that Clinton himself did so much to renew...
...MARLEYS WERE DEAD." HUH? EBenezer Scrooge (a nicely grave Michael Caine) has two dead partners -- played by Statler and Waldorf, those sour kibitzers from the Muppet Show. Kermit the Frog is Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy is Mrs. C., Gonzo is Charles Dickens . . . so this must be THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL, the first feature from Jim Henson Productions since the founder's death. Director Brian Henson hasn't his dad's genius for comic detail, and the film often sinks into the brown funk of a wake for the passed master. But when Kermit (now voiced by Steve Whitmire) says...