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...team competition, third in the women's, five golds in individual events), and then, last week, anxiously awaited the finals between its women's volleyball team, world champions in 1982, and the U.S. Factories and offices came to a stop for a live telecast. When China clinched the gold, the country erupted in joy. Fireworks rocketed into the sky. In Peking an impromptu convoy of bicyclists waving flags headed for the U.S. embassy; security guards kept them from getting too close, but the crowd was in a jubilant mood. Even matters of state were momentarily put aside...
...last time a Harvard football game was telecast was on Nov 6. 1982 when Harvard beat Holy Cross...
...games, shown on public television, will be broadcast without commercials, and according to Harney, his group would make no attempt to influence the schedule or change the time of a game to suit the telecast Nor will any of the games be blacked out in the home team's viewing area...
...matter little in a film whose interest transcends its artistic shortcomings. Sakharov brings the story of a courageous man to an audience that may know little of him beyond a few sentences from Dan Rather on the evening news. (An update to be inserted at the end of the telecast will fill viewers in on the latest developments.) The film has already been seen on Dutch TV, and will be shown in several other European countries. Sakharov probably should be compared, not to such other TV biographical epics as George Washington or Kennedy, but to those social-problem dramas that...
...nearly as much intrigue behind the camera as in front of it, as producers go to elaborate lengths to keep their last-minute surprises a secret. Dallas, for example, filmed four different endings for this week's season finale; not even the actors know which one will be telecast and which are decoys. Scripts are tightly guarded and writers frequently destroy their notes from story conferences to prevent leaks. Reporters from the national tabloids have been known to pay up to $50,000 for a mole to give them advance details on a cliffhanger...