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...days when a big network mini-series could mobilize the country around its TV sets night after night seem to have vanished. Though none of this season's mini-series were outright bombs, all fell short of smash ratings. Despite A.D.'s stars (James Mason, Ava Gardner), spectacle and heavy pretelecast promotion, it attracted only 19.2% of the nation's TV viewers. That is above average but no larger than the audience for a typical episode of Magnum, P.I. The most popular three-parter of the season, ABC's Hollywood Wives, drew an unspectacular 22.8 rating, much lower than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: In Search of Maxi-Audiences | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

This aspiring Perine Mason and the lustful philosopher get thrown together by the two great college mixers, the introductory writing class and the vacation road trip. In first year writing class. Alison discovers that her writing is as dry as Gib's sex life, while Gib realizes that, Faulkner excepted, writing requires something resembling sentences Their teacher. Professor Traub (Viveca Lindfors), runs her writing class like a laboratory in life, passing by the usual that which distinction for such advice as "Talk to people whose clothes are not color coordinated Make love in a hammock...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Meathead Strikes Again | 3/22/1985 | See Source »

However, East Stroudsburg, the second-ranked team in the East, squeaked by the Crimson, 15-12 and 15-13, in the quarterfinal round--and then defeated Pitt to move into the finals and an anticipated showdown with top-ranked George Mason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men's Volleyball | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...from 1932 crafted more than 60 rousing adventures, big-sky westerns and film noir mysteries that starred some of the screen's greatest names, including Gary Cooper (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, 1935), James Stewart (Call Northside 777, 1948), Tyrone Power (The Black Rose, 1950), James Mason (The Desert Fox, 1951) and John Wayne (True Grit, 1969); in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 25, 1985 | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...acted on his own. There was widespread speculation among Soviet diplomats that Lyndon Johnson, along with the CIA and the Mafia, had masterminded the plot. Johnson was anathema to Khrushchev. Because he was a Southerner, Moscow considered him a racist (the stereotype of any American politician from below the Mason-Dixon line), an anti-Soviet, and anti-Communist to boot. Further, since Johnson was from Texas, a center of the reactionary forces in the U.S., according to the Soviets, he was associated with the big-time capitalism of the oil industry, also known to be anti- Soviet. He "smells oily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking with Moscow | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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