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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bruins enter the last three weeks of the season with an offense that could turn them into the Ivy's next version of the Columbia Lions...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Dwelling in the Ivy League Cellar | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...schedule this month, solicit viewer help each week in tracking down fugitives. The syndicated magazine show A Current Affair, drawing good ratings on 125 stations, goes for the gut each night with stories on crime and celebrity scandal. Typical subjects on Fox's The Reporters, a tabloid version of 60 Minutes, range from a grandmother who tracked down the alleged killer of her daughter to racist youths known as skinheads, in a report titled "Shaved and Dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Walk on the Seamy Side | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

Though sudden, the explosion of tabloid shows should not be surprising. There is no reason why TV should not have its own version of the New York Daily News or even the National Enquirer, alongside World News Tonight and The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. "I see myself as an alternative vision," says Rivera, "not one dictated by the suits on Sixth Avenue ((Manhattan's network row))." Although his antics often seem self-aggrandizing and overwrought, Geraldo finds the TV universe is big enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Walk on the Seamy Side | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...stronghold and home to the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral, are having difficulty maintaining their stocks of a Halloween card with a political tinge. BUSH WINS declares a newspaper headline on the front, while the inside * reads, "This is the scariest card I could find. Happy Halloween." A version with the headline DUKAKIS WINS is hardly selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: Oct. 31, 1988 | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...House sent the Senate version of the insurance biil to committee and began debate on the first of the two aid packages that Gov. Michael S. Dukakis vetoed in his spring budget-cutting process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Returns Despite Fears of Duke-Bashing | 10/25/1988 | See Source »

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