Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course puts you in touch with the world ina way very few courses do," said AstronomyProfessor Charles A. Whitney, who has taught thecourse since Wright's retirement. "It's not justdoing calculations but gives you the feeling thatyou live in a spherical earth...
...McMillan and Wife. In 1978 he moved to MTM Enterprises, the studio started by Grant Tinker and his then wife Mary Tyler Moore. After a couple of failed series, Bochco and another MTM writer, Michael Kozoll, were asked by NBC to develop a police series with a human touch. They came up with Hill Street Blues, which debuted in January 1981. Though ratings were low at first, NBC stuck with the show; it went on to win a record 26 Emmys (six for Bochco alone) and to virtually reinvent television drama...
...wrote the first three scripts and now serves as consultant. The show, a provocative but overly congested half hour of drama and comedy, has yet to hit its creative stride. But Bochco's batting average has been impressive enough that the networks seem convinced he has a golden touch. Last fall CBS tried to hire Bochco as its chief of programming. He turned down the job, partly because it would mean giving up his financial interest in L.A. Law and Hooperman, expected to be worth millions when the shows go into syndication...
...black on the Governor's team, Edley could wind up as chief domestic-policy adviser. Standing in the wings is Sasso, the mastermind of the campaign, who left after distributing the Joseph Biden "attack video" last fall. From his office at a Boston advertising agency, Sasso has kept in touch with the candidate. Should Dukakis go all the way to the White House, Sasso is likely to follow, perhaps as chief of staff...
Black Americans, Bosey says, run the risk ofentirely losing touch with their heritage, andBlack frats are one way Black students try topreserve their identity. "The question really isnot whether to integrate, because you have tointegrate. The question is whether integrationinvolves assimilation," Bosey says...