Branding the quality Thursday night lineup began during the 1982-83 television season, which NBC promoted Fame, Hill Street Blues, Taxi (after being cancelled by ABC after its fourth season) and the then-new show Cheers as "America's Best Night of Television on Television". When the season ended, Taxi and Fame were cancelled, with the latter series being revived for new episodes in first-run syndication. However, though Cheers disappointed on ratings during its first season, instead of cancel it, the network gave the show a second chance, and it was renewed for the 1983-84 season, which saw none of its nine fall shows being renewed for a second season (one of them, We Got It Made, premiered on Thursdays during its first season, and later was revived a few years later for first-run syndication). NBC decided to move both Family Ties and Buffalo Bill from Wednesdays to Thursdays during the winter of 1984, joining Cheers, Hill Street Blues and Gimme a Break!, with newcomer Night Court joining the lineup during the summer.
What marked the beginning of NBC's dominance on Thursday nights was during the 1984-85 season, when the network premiered a new show: The Cosby Show, receiving critical acclaim, with TV Guide listing the series as "TV's biggest hit in the 1980s", adding it "almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes".[4] The enormous success of Cosby (which became the third-most watched show of the season in the US) also helped the other shows on its Thursday night lineup increase its ratings dramatically, with Family Ties entering the top-ten for the first time; and Cheers and Night Court both entering the top-twenty; while Hill Street Blues remained steadily on the top-thirty. When Cosby debuted, it marked a major turning point for NBC as well, as the network rose to second place at the end of the season; and reach first place at the end of the 1985-86 season, with Cosby being the number-one show in the US, which it managed to stay on that position for four more seasons until 1990. During the late 1980s, other NBC shows-turned-hits on Thursdays includes Cosby spinoff A Different World, Dear John and L.A. Law.
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Raymond Leo Flynn (born July 22, 1939) is an American politician who served as the mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, from 1984 until 1993. He also served as United States Ambassador to the Holy See from 1993 to 1997.
Flynn successfully ran for mayor of Boston in 1983 and took office in 1984. Flynn was reelected in 1987 and 1991. Polls showed Flynn to enjoy strong approval from Bostonians during his mayoralty. As mayor, Flynn balanced the city's budget, eliminating a large budget deficit. To address the deficit, Flynn lobbied heavily for the passage of a revenue package for the city in the Massachusetts Legislature to provide additional state aid to the city and the authorization for the city to raise new local taxes. In 1985, a revenue package was passed and signed into law by Governor Michael Duakakis. In response to discriminatory practices studies found banks to be practicing in Boston, Flynn took actions which persuaded banks to reach a $400 million community reinvestment agreement with the city. Flynn succeeded in getting legislation passed to replace the city's publicly-elected school board with the new Boston School Committee, members of which are appointed by the city's mayor. Flynn would quickly come to express his regret about this change. In 1990, Flynn saw strong criticism from Black leaders over the Boston Police Department's handling of the investigation into the murder of Carol Stuart. As mayor, Flynn advanced plans to desegregate the city's public housing. Flynn's administration gave neighborhood groups more of a voice in the use of the city's development and planning authorities in their neighborhoods. This included innovative move of granting the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative powers of eminent domain. Flynn successfully fought to enact rent control laws and strong tenants' rights laws. Flynn also served as president of the United States Conference of Mayors from 1991 to 1992.
Flynn served as mayor from his inauguration on January 2, 1984[23] until his resignation on July 12, 1993.[24] During his tenure, Flynn was regarded to be a popular mayor, which was reflected in high approval ratings.[3] As mayor, Flynn maintained a prominent public profile.[25]
In 1984, the initial revenue package that Flynn championed was defeated in the state legislature.[3][35] In 1985, Flynn proposed and lobbied for a revised revenue package.[35][36] This revenue package passed, and was signed into law by Governor Dukakis.[3][37]
In this era of "third way," suburban, New Democrat politics, Flynn's New Deal, patronage-oriented, urban populism may have outgrown its welcome even here in the bosom of liberalism. The triple-decker houses once bulging with large ethnic families are now occupied by yuppies for whom the name Flynn is just a distant memory...While some candidates attempt to repackage themselves or tack with the political winds, Flynn is adamantly retro -- hoping the style and themes that worked so well nearly two decades ago can deliver one more victory.[25]
This return to polished Americana has similarly given new popularity to prim cardigans (like those by the new brand Leorosa) and chore dresses and fusty nightgowns (found at Brooklyn Heights cult store Salter House). Young urbanites are finding a certain novelty in yuppie haunts of yesteryear, shopping for headbands at Upper East Side pharmacy Zitomer and posting photos from dinners at Keens Steakhouse.
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When Greene's book Good Morning, Merry Sunshine came out in 1984, many of his colleagues at the Tribune were stunned. "We had no idea that Bob was even married, let alone a father," says someone who worked in the paper's features department. The book is Greene's diary of his first year as the father of a baby girl, Amanda. Far from portraying him as a doting new dad, the Greene in the account is incapable of accepting the responsibility of fatherhood. One memorable scene depicts him demanding his dinner even though his wife is trying to comfort their crying infant. Still, the testimonials rolled in. The humorist Erma Bombeck bestowed an honorary membership in motherhood. Phil Donahue called it "the most honest and personal account of the first year of fatherhood I have ever read."
By the late eighties, Greene's impact on popular culture was solidly established. He was credited in an Esquire column with disseminating the term "yuppie." His article about a young woman wishing to be "drained" by a vampire inspired Anne Rice to write The Vampire Lestat, the author's sequel to Interview with a Vampire. The premier issue of Spy magazine made fun of his toupees. 2ff7e9595c
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