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...when the Black Sox scandal was exposed after years of underground sports gambling, the boy asked Joe Jackson, "It ain't true...
...stumble into the Bay of Pigs invasion. Playwright Keith Reddin, 29, was a child of four when CIA-backed Cuban insurgents made their disastrous landing in 1961, but he captures with compassion and accuracy the Kennedy Administration's fundamental miscalculation: the belief in a nonexistent Cuban underground that was only waiting for a signal of support to rise up and overthrow Fidel Castro. Reddin presents the Bay of Pigs fiasco as a dress rehearsal by America's best and brightest for their misjudgments in Viet Nam. Some of the funniest scenes depict the white-collar macho of bureaucrats who react...
...shared and multiplied among a staff of intrepid writers, that made the show into a certifiable cultural phenomenon. S.N.L. was the first network program to cut off a slice of the energy, irreverence and scapegrace spirit of rock culture. It was also the first major forum for the comedy underground that had begun to form in the late '60s. This was humor influenced by Mad magazine and the National Lampoon, Ernie Kovacs and Monty Python, William S. Burroughs and Johnny B. Goode. Under the shrewd editorial tutelage of Producer Lorne Michaels, this over-the-top farce, gussied...
After 10 years of seemingly endless planning and debate, cable TV is finally coming to Cambridge. With a final license signed by the city and the cable franchise last December, the first underground cable lines were laid in North Cambridge in late January. By April some of the city's residents will be watching...
After laying initial cable lines in late December, American Cablesystems has temporarily stopped underground work and will resume construction in early March. At the same time, the company is working on aerial wiring of telephone poles along the city's 140 miles of streets...