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...E.D.T.) that the alleged assassin was an Arab. A CBS medical expert, using a text book illustration to explain the Pope's injuries, inadvertently showed a diagram of the female anatomy. There were some lapses in taste as well, though the most flagrant came from the public. Like sitcom and sports fans in earlier news crises, hundreds of viewers jammed TV station switchboards across the country to complain that their afternoon soap operas were interrupted. -By Janice Castro. Reported by Peter Ainslie and Robert Celine/New York, with other bureaus

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Pope's Been Shot! | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...sounded like a sitcom version of The Dogs of War, after rewrites by V.S. Naipaul and Woody Allen. Even the feds joked about a "Bayou of Pigs." Ten men, mostly Southerners and mostly Ku Klux Klan members, were arrested last week by federal agents at a marina near New Orleans and charged with organizing an expedition against a friendly nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bayou of Pigs | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...showcase. Unfortunately, the NHL has no network television contract to showcase the series--too many Colorado-Washington games took care of that long ago. So, the league will peddle the games to independent stations (like Boston's channel 38), and daring network affiliates that are willing to forfeit a sitcom or two to show this interborough fracas...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Nobody's Watching | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

Cruises offer bargain vacations with sitcom expectations

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Love Boats Rule the Waves | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...spruce white ship in Miami each week for a voyage to the Bahamas, few will later recall ever having seen seas, let alone a lonely sea. On Sunward II and most other cruise ships operating out of U.S. ports, sea and sky are props for a floating fantasy sitcom vacation that promises to be more naughty than nautical. Aboard Sunward, which steams only 380 nautical miles in the course of four days, the cruising is done mostly by the passengers, whose pursuit of romance and adventure is as unrelenting as the wump-wump-klump of the slot machines. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Love Boats Rule the Waves | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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