Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Specials Sports, music, beauty contests and holidays-all will be grist for dozens of upcoming specials. The networks' purpose will be purely contentious: to lure viewers out of TV habits or to spoil the debut of a rival's series. In the first week of the new season, NBC will present the first of six Laugh-In specials; in the weeks that follow, there will be a four-bout evening of heavyweight boxing, a Doonesbury cartoon special and The Godfather Saga, a nine-hour, four-night extravaganza combining both movies and some outtake footage too. ABC plans...
...other place," called the Bonecrusher. Wouldn't she be better off with the nasty shrinks and their mind-killing shock treatments? Certainly not. After all, she has sympathetic friends like Martin (Allan Moyle), a local crazy; and the doctors, as one of Robin's friends says, "gotta spoil all the special people." So Liza moves...
Star Wars is a very entertaining movie that is fun to watch, if only to catch all the special effects. The plot isn't exactly sophisticated-it's basic good guys against bad guys. And guess who wins? (I won't tell because it might spoil the movie for you.) But now that it's not selling out all the time, you can make the trip downtown and actually get in to see the movie. May the force be with...
...Crimson did not own the copyright on winning tie-breakers, though. Columbia's number four, Jeff Silver, opened his match against Gerken with a 7-6 first-set victory. But Gerken was not about to let Silver spoil his Palmer Dixon debut and he came back to smoke the Lions, taking a pair of 6-3 sets without much trouble...
...first night at the Palomar started slow. The band knew the engagement was their chance to hit the big time, and they did not want to spoil it with the crazy beat that sent their Denver audience back to the box office. They kept a lid on at first. The audience sat unimpressed. Then the bandleader tossed aside all caution and the band cut loose with a swinging dance tempo and a set of upbeat numbers like the "King Porter Stomp." The young audience got to their feet and went ape. Kids across the country heard the joyful noise...