Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior quarterback from Edison, N.J., struck Homer Hill all alone in the middle of the end zone at 11:58 for the second Lion score to top the hosts' impressive eight-play, 76-yard drive...
...city was involved in a similar dispute when it tried to keep a petition making Cambridge a nuclear free zone off the ballot. After the city later placed the issue back on the ballot, voters defeated the referendum...
Amazing Stories takes prime-time TV not so much back to the future as forward to the '50s, when series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone invited viewers on a different adventure of the imagination each week. Because Spielberg has enlisted such directors as Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Clint Eastwood, Paul Bartel and Peter Hyams (Mr. E.T. will direct two of his own the first season), each of the Stories promises a distinctive style. Hyams' episode boasts sepulchral lighting and tension as taut as piano * wire; Bartel's is a slapstick black comedy; Spielberg's two shows...
Harvey Shephard, the CBS programming chief who preferred to retool The Twilight Zone rather than take a chance on Spielberg's anthology of original stories, is convinced that Amazing Stories is actually his network's secret weapon. Shephard predicts "a high initial tune-in sample" of the NBC show, followed by a return to tele firma. And if that does not happen, all CBS has to do is contrive to let a Sunday-afternoon N.F.L. broadcast run overtime, thus pushing 60 Minutes back by ten or 15 minutes, and 60 Minutes loyalists will miss the first half of an Amazing...
...well. The two-hour fall premiere episode, shot in New York City and scheduled for Sept. 27, will feature such guest stars as Gene Simmons of Kiss and Peter Allen. The show is also playing a major role (along with such new series as Amazing Stories and The Twilight Zone) in attracting writers and directors who have previously avoided television. "The old stigma against TV is gone now," says Bobby Roth. "A lot of shows are going to sound better, and they are going to look better. And I think Miami Vice is a big reason for that...