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There are a number of other programs scrambling around down there in the pits with A.A.G. It is difficult, for example, to decide which is the worst new sitcom. For sheer witlessness, the nod should go to LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY, (ABC, Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.), a spin-off from Happy Days, in which the title gals (one cannot bring oneself to use a more dignified term) are employed in a Milwaukee brewery in the early 1960s-a situation about which we are for some reason supposed to feel nostalgia. Penny Marshall, who plays Laverne, has chosen not to characterize...
They also encourage students to be discerning and to recognize an author's bias. A spin-off of LAC-10, a reading-writing course, is also well attended. While TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce sat in on a class last week, students were asked what came to mind when presented with each of several different adjectives meaning fat. Sample answers: for paunchy, "beerbelly"; corpulent, "overweight but dignified"; fleshy, "yuck, flabby"; burly, "a lumberjack or truck driver"; roly-poly, "funny, clownlike...
...that atmosphere, inside Jeff City, it got so that talk about killing King seemed perfectly ordinary, something rather plausible, not at all unreasonable, certainly possible. Ray and [his fellow convict Raymond] Curtis would sit around, often high on speed, while Ray would spin out the details of how he would do the job ... Ray said he would have the place all set up, all lined up, then he would get his money, his papers. It was his idea to get plumb out of the country...
...Lullabies. Their music is climbing the pop charts in England, which is surprising - not because they are Irish, but because they sing no songs and in stead spin out purified instrumentals of the reel, jig, slide, Kerry polka and other such traditional forms. On their last two visits to London, they packed Al bert Hall. Midway through a three- week American tour in November, they sold out Avery Fisher Hall at New York City's Lincoln Center, where young Irish-Americans danced jubilantly in the aisles. Last week they were back in Manhattan to highlight an all-Irish program...
Last year technology put pocket calculators under the Christmas tree. This year's great space-age spin-off is the digital watch. Hailed by one effusive manufacturer as "probably the greatest breakthrough in timekeeping technology since the sundial," the solid-state, quartz-crystal "time calculator" displays the time (and, on the more expensive models, the month and date) with glowing numbers, rather than hands moving around a clock face. Digitals are expected to account for at least 5% of all watches sold in the U.S. in 1975-some 2.5 million-at prices ranging from $30 to more than...