Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meager crowd that showed up yesterday afternoon at Watson Rink to watch the Harvard freshman hockey squad trounce Boston State was given its money's worth. The yardlings had an easy victory over State, taking their first match...
Untamed Play. Millions of other fans from the Yukon to Newfoundland will slow down their own parties long enough to watch the game on TV. They may be joined by American viewers who stumble on the Grey Cup while switching channels to catch American Thanksgiving weekend games...
...disaster area hardly resembles a detective lieutenant of police, much less the hero of a successful television series. But he is both. He is Peter Falk as Columbo, on the NBC series of the same name. Every fourth week, some 37 million viewers tune in avidly to watch him shamble, sniffle, fidget, mutter and gesticulate his way through a case. The fans may be slower to pounce on a clue than he is. But usually they anticipate their favorite Columbo routines-deceptively plodding, cunningly naive-and see them coming a mile off, which is half...
Such is the cop-shop banter on the Atlanta police force, says Sergeant W.E. Wood of the metropolitan narcotics squad. Like Wood, many real-life police officers, detectives and lawyers enjoy watching their fictionalized counter parts on television. "We watch Columbo and others," says Atlanta Assistant District Attorney Ross Hawkins, "be cause it makes our jobs a little more palatable to watch someone who does always...
...fans would have done better to stay home and watch Michigan beat their brains out to tie Ohio State--only to be voted out of the Rose Bowl--or even to spend the afternoon raiding the Thanksgiving-day remains. Piling disappointment on disappointment, even the Harvard band was not up to par, although their topic--shortages--was timely in light of the Crimson's meager showing. After a misleadingly promising initial drive the Harvard offense settled into a complacement, mediocre game plan that earned the Crimson the dubious distinction of being shutout for the first time since...