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Pundits often talk about the digression of our society via the television, the fact that our American minds are being warped by the horrors on broadcast TV—the very shows we turn to for a much-needed diversion from the difficulties of reality. As a columnist in a recent issue of Time magazine points out, the new target of political muscle is violence, but not that of the talk-show variety. No, instead, politicians now have their sights set squarely on the increasingly prevalent hour-long primetime dramas...
...must, however, look on the bright side. No matter what gets cancelled, gets modified from its original version for broadcast television, gets toned down, cleaned up or cut out—I’ll still have my “Maury.” Thankfully, that kind of trashy television is nowhere near popular enough to raise anyone’s ire. It’s a good thing, too—because just like the guests on his show, I’d do just about anything to find out who’s the father...
...Hutton was 79 at this time, and she knew she was nearly spent. But she had that incorrigibly chipper spirit she'd broadcast so fortissimo in her films. "Finally you're gonna die from something. I'll die from stage fright, but it won't be anything else...
...course, God and country, are taboo topics during these mostly tear-filled reunions, but almost all the North Korean families praise Kim Jong Il at least several times during the two-hour live broadcast. "All our education is free and we don't pay for hospital care," says a sixty-something North Korean woman, who is sitting on a long purple sofa with her sister and father in a room that also doesn't seem too conducive to reconnecting with relatives one hasn't seen in more than a half century...
...Lebanon and is suspected of aiding Shi'ite militias within Iraq. Iran had indicated it would release the lone female sailor, Faye Turney, but first, its tactics with her began to look more like those of an Iraqi kidnap group than of a nation-state. On March 28, Iran broadcast footage of Turney wearing a black head scarf and smoking a cigarette. In a halting voice, she said, "Obviously we trespassed into their waters ... They were very, very compassionate...