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When singer Willie Nelson goes on the road, he often likes to tune in to a good western movie. Trouble is, he often searches the dial in vain. Nelson decided that if he wanted down-home TV, he should program it himself. Result: the Cowboy Channel. Scheduled to start in November, the 24-hour cable channel will feature rodeos, horse operas, country music and vintage TV series like Gunsmoke. Nelson will serve as the company's chairman and as host to a projected weekly music-and-talk show called Songwriter. He has already signed up cable systems with 4.2 million...
...less blessed by God and geography. But menaces there now were: missile technologies left in the ashes of the Third Reich and the aggressive ideology of an ally turned archrival. Also, as the supreme world power to emerge from the war, we nourished what Walter Lippmann called "the totally vain notion that if we do not set the world in order, no matter what the price, we cannot live in the world safely." All these factors awakened worries about security and a striving for protective measures, mainly military ones...
...many times has one of the shadowy groups that hold Western hostages in Lebanon dangled a wisp of hope for the release of a captive, only to snatch it away? This time hope was not in vain. On Sunday, kidnapers set free American hostage Robert Polhill, 55, one of three American teachers who had been seized more than three years ago from the campus of Beirut University College. Polhill, a New Yorker, was released to Syrian army officers near a seaside hotel in Beirut and then driven to Damascus, where he was handed over to U.S. Ambassador Edward Djerejian...
...Rose's mild-mannered suitor, Short delivers his lines with an endearing relish, and his vain, half-hearted attempts to appear dastardly and evil at Ruddigore Castle are subtly humorous in contrast to the dastardly quality of Despard. Though Short has a pleasant singing voice, he suffers by close comparison to the divine Thompson in their duet in the first...
...Donaldson and Diane Sawyer did an hour-long interview with Bush and his popular wife Barbara on PrimeTime Live. Last week NBC's Tom Brokaw accompanied Bush through a "typical" day for a special titled A Day in the Life of the White House. The show illustrated just how vain is the hope that a President can be understood merely by being followed around...