Word: wilke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Longtime viewers fondly recall the programs of TV's alleged Golden Age, the '50s. A more realistic nostalgia has grown up around the era's scruffy, fevered atmosphere backstage. The film My Favorite Year offered peephole glimpses of those times; now Max Wilk, a noted historian of popular art, revisits the terrain in A Tough Act to Follow. His acerbic novel blends reverie with naked rage at conniving, screen-deep program executives who have displaced the medium's pioneers. Although some secondary characters and events are real, Wilk focuses on an imaginary comedian, Jody Cassel, natural star and born victim...
...game-wining goal, capitalizing on mistakes in the Crimson defense, Bruin fullback Ted Croft dribbled out of the Brown half and launched a long cross toward the Harvard goalmouth. Goalkeeper Phil Coxigan hesitated, then came off his line to try to intercept the pass. But Brown forward John Wilk, running unmarked, beat him to the hall and headed it into an empty net for the tally...