Word: xxii
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contest, Super Bowl XXII ended by half time. As a lesson, it should last forever. The TV ratings in the late stages were the paltriest in years, but it is pleasing to imagine that this may have only partly been a product of the lopsided score, that a multitude of black children may have already raced outside to raise their arms to the sky. And not just blacks. And not just children...
LAST Sunday afternoon the real TV action did not kick off at 6:30--with Super Bowl XXII's first down--but at 4:00. IBM computers, Hanes underwear, Volkswagen cars and ABC's World News Tonight were the starting players...
Some might say that the final score of Super Bowl XXII was 42-10. But in reality, at $650,000 for a half-minute ad, ABC was the winner--raking in at least $33 million dollars from ads and attracting countless more million of viewers to the advertised shows...
Washington and Denver go this way and that way to Super Bowl XXII. -- Requiem for Holmes. -- Mandingo and the Greek...
...author, a sportsman and TIME'S tourist-about-Moscow gives his own Olympian view of the XXII Games and offers his reflections on life and language, soldiery and circus acts in the Soviet capital...