Word: bionic
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...over 40 searching for a tennis fountain of youth. Says Thomas: "Very few young people buy them." As for the young themselves. New Jersey Tournament Player Paul Barrett, 15, sums up: "When somebody shows up with a fancy stick, some other kid will say, 'Oh, you need a bionic racquet, huh?' Nobody wants to look like a sissy...
...number two Sarah Mleczko, the bionic freshman, won her match over Forbes Singer. Coming off a very productive field hockey season, Mleczko scored a 3-0 victory...
...more prominently featured on TV. To be sure, NBC had spun Angie Dickinson's Police Woman out of its Police Story series two years ago and had done reasonably well with a show that portrayed a woman as brave and self-reliant. Then, of course, there was The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner. Silverman ordered her resurrected after she was erroneously bumped off at the end of a special appearance on The Six Million Dollar Man; a heart and a rather engaging spirit coexist with the electronic circuitry under Lindsay's lovely skin. The fact that The Bionic...
...Neither Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner nor Wonder Woman Lynda Carter has, obviously, the mature appeal of an Angie Dickinson. But Los Angeles-born Wagner, who did a couple of low-budget features (notably Paper Chase), has potential. The show's creator, Ken Johnson, says he modeled her character after an ideal date he had in mind, someone "truthful, witty and eminently attractive," and Wagner seems to fill the bill. Says Wagner: "I'm trying like hell not to be Wonder Woman." Carter, 24, who is trying like hell to put that character across, is a former swimming champion...
...bionic programmer now works in a 38th-floor office overlooking the domain of his old CBS colleague Network President Robert Wussler (they occasionally wave to each other from their windows). Silverman arrives at 9:30 each morning and begins rousing his West Coast producers from bed to discuss the overnight ratings. The rest of his day is a marathon of meetings-with soap-opera writers, sitcom producers, cartoon animators, promotion experts, demographics wizards. He returns to his Central Park West apartment for dinner with his wife Cathy and their daughter Melissa, 4, then holes up in his den with...