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Back when Bob Barker still had black hair, families were feuding, and whammies were a menace to society, game shows ruled the television screen. During the golden years of gaming in the 1970s and early 1980s, millions of degenerate adults and sick schoolchildren could spend their days on the couch in the living room, watching non-stop game shows on the three major networks from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Sadly, many feel that today's shows fall short of capturing that tacky flair so critical to the classic game show experience...
...work dismantling and rewiring, and blasted Bob Marley all the while with my door wide open. I was in my zone. At 3:08 a.m. yesterday morning I telneted, logged in and sent the first e-mail message from my room...
...product of last week's reminder that nature doesn't bend to bullet-train schedules was that suddenly curling, unsmudged by the snow, appeared on Channel 36 in Nagano, and then on Channel 48 and Channel 47, the camera trained on competitors who looked like your Uncle Bob and the sound track made up of nothing but their curses, asides and excited cries of "Hurry, hurry, hurry!" (a technical term, one was told, meaning they should move fast). Another unlikely savior in the spotlight...
...While visiting the Olympic facilities here, despite evident anxiety on the part of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt rode the last mile of the Mount Van Hoevenberg Bob Run. Mrs. Roosevelt had ridden on the Mirror Lake Toboggan Slide several times previous to her experiment on the big run on a sled piloted by Henry Homburger [a Winter Games medalist] of the Saranac Lake Red Devils, but expressed a desire to ride on the track which had put so many contestants on the hospital lists...
...Olympics. The man Hockey News named the best player in the world was stateside nursing a concussion received on Feb. 1, when he took a stick to the head while celebrating a goal. Kariya was grounded by doctors last Thursday. It was, he told Team Canada general manager Bob Clark, "the worst day of my life." The guy who held the offending stick, Gary Suter, despite an NHL suspension, will be playing for the U.S. That makes Canada...