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...fashioned prime-time network TV--the fairest way, after all, to draw a comparison with TV's pre-cable Bronze Age. A list of indispensable current series, besides those already mentioned, would include the mighty, acerbic Roseanne, still potent after seven-plus seasons; newer shows now hitting their stride, like Mad About You, The X-Files, Friends, NewsRadio and the wonderful Homicide, more vivid and biting than its more illustrious rival NYPD Blue. Among the season's new shows, American Gothic, Ned and Stacey and The Bonnie Hunt Show are all odd and worth watching before they get canceled...
...coming down the street from the subway station. He wears a coat and tie, and a small fedora is perched on his head. He has a newspaper tucked under his arm. His overcoat is unbuttoned, and it flaps at his sides as he approaches with a brisk, toes-out stride. He is whistling and stops to greet the druggist, the baker, our building super, almost everybody he passes. To some kids on the block he is a faintly comical figure. Not to me. This jaunty, confident little man is Luther Powell, my father...
...speeches, Dole takes the age issue in stride. "I'll put Strom Thurmond on the ticket for age balance," he jokes (Senator Thurmond is 92 years old). But Dole's real advantage comes just from showing how hard he can work. When a voter asked Dole in Keene, New Hampshire, earlier this year whether he was simply too old to be President, Dole's reply was almost a dare: "Stick with me for a day and see for yourself...
Steiner said he has talked about the searchprocess over the past two months with the PBHAboard, the PBH staff, Director of PBH and Directorof the Stride Rite Program Greg A. Johnson, '72,Director of Public Service Programs for theCollege Gail L. Epstein and some members of the26-member PBH advisory committee...
...learning word-processing and stress-management skills, Brown also has a Pell grant of $760 and a $1,700 federal loan to pay for her education. Sipping a Bud Light with her sister-in-law at The Bowler, Brown takes the news of the probable cuts in stride. "If they cut it all out, I would make do," says the plain-speaking brunet, who lost her long-distance-operator job at AT&T in a 1987 restructuring and has worked on and off since as a housecleaner and a cashier. "People here will figure...