Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writer deigns to allow that, "If students wish to study feminist 'thought' that's fine. It's good for a laugh." "Pitting feminist classics against genuine classics," he continues, "is like pitting yipping pups against lions...
Fortunately too, Danny Glover plays the Cosby role: Veteran Cop Roger Murtaugh, a solid professional with a patient wife and numerous lively progeny. Glover brings a weary gravity -- no cute stuff permitted -- to his relationship with his flock and with his new partner. The latter may have a death wish, but Murtaugh has a strong life wish, and the patience to drip it slowly into Riggs' sensibility...
...about 80 reporters and correspondents after the cuts, roughly the same number as at NBC and ABC. Still, the reduction of manpower in the field "hurts us badly," says Evening News Executive Producer Tom Bettag. "What you're going to lose is a reporter on the scene when you wish you had a reporter on the scene. You cannot have less original reporting and not have the quality suffer." CBS, like both of its belt-tightening network rivals, will probably depend more often on footage from other sources, such as local stations and syndicated services. Indeed, Rather has already begun...
With a sigh that carries the fences at Lakeland, Anderson says, "Every player who comes to a new town tells how happy he is. I wish just one guy would stand up and say, 'I hate your town, I hate your team, I hate your manager. I'm here for one reason: you shelled out the most.' " Perhaps the least cynical Tiger is Steve Searcy, a stylish left-hander (wearing a CAN'T MISS tag). Searcy had a small stake in the free-agent war. He wants Parrish's number...
...bitter. I wish Raymundo all the best in his pursuit of his hard-earned winnings. And I hope Meg has finally found the place of final peace that I used to hope she would. For Rutger Fury, the quest 'for heiress' millions is a thing of the past, a dim memory in the tableau of life...