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Word: spiced (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more conventional turf, the old formats are at least being enlivened this fall by new settings. Following the lead of NBC's hit Miami Vice, a number of action shows have gone on location to spice their tales with big-city ambience. Chicago is the locale for ABC's Lady Blue, a hard-edged cop show about a female homicide detective who shoots first and asks questions later, a sort of Dirty Harriet. Red-haired Jamie Rose wields her .357 magnum like a pro, and Danny Aiello is fine as her exasperated boss. The series is scheduled to be replaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Old Habits, New Formats | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

THINKING UP WAYS of dodging the speed limit has always been one of those things that spice up a long drive through the boondocks. Keeping one eye on the highway and the other a half-mile up the road to sniff out a speed trap; perfecting the technique of hitting the brakes--but not too hard--when you see Smokey zap you with his radar gun; offering a revolutionary excuse to the trooper as he asks for your license and registration--these are all classic features of intercity travel in America...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Those Men in (Baby) Blue | 9/21/1985 | See Source »

Hoping to spice up the show's image and attract a larger audience, TWI producer Chris Carmody explains that he plans to "strike a balance between old and new. There's the tradition of Ivy League football, along with the way the student body is today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy on the Air | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

Hoping to spice up the show's image and attract a larger audience, TWI producer Chris Carmody explains that he plans to "strike a balance between old and new. There's the tradition of Ivy League football, along with the way the student body is today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy on the Air | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...open car windows. Just south on St. Nicholas Avenue at El Pablon Chino restaurant, the Chinese waiter serves fried Dominican sausage and chop suey; he speaks Spanish, but no English. Along one refurbished commercial block in Flushing, Asia is scrunched together: Korean beauty salon, Chinese hardware store, Pakistani-Indian spice and grocery store, Chinese wristwatch shop, Korean barber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York Final Destination | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

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