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...realm of emotional development that marijuana does its damage. In any case, it seems there has been a mistake. Pot is not the drug of youth but rather of old age, the threshold of death--a little buzz before Kevorkian. It is a dulling drug, certainly useful as a palliative for the elderly. The young don't need to have their pain dulled. They need to learn from it. Perhaps baby-boomer parents, as they grow old, should reserve the world's marijuana supply for themselves and for what will no doubt be the gaudy and self-important theatrics...
...show belongs to a breed of prime-time series that pumps along year after year without the benefit of buzz, or even hum. Like a Kraft casserole your in-laws just won't stop serving, Fox has offered up the tasteless Married...with Children for close to 10 years now. Meanwhile, even though the media stopped paying attention back when the cast was taking its PSATs, the kids on Fox's Beverly Hills 90210 have been slogging--in real time--through high school and four years of college. ABC's Family Matters and its alien-voiced, freak man-child Steve...
...frustration of toiling away for series that reap little glory. "We opened up Must-See TV on Tuesday nights," laments Wings' executive producer Mark Reisman. "At the end of this season we will have 175 episodes--that's a lot. But this show didn't create a lot of buzz in the beginning, and that just stuck. This is a happy set too, so it doesn't generate the press some other shows get for the wrong reasons. We are victims of normalcy." But at least not victims of cancellation...
...when they stepped onto the court they also brought an electricity with them that spread to the rest of the team. In last year's opening-round loss to Vanderbilt in the NCAA Tournament, Buzz and Rhino led the Harvard defensive charge and turned in their best games of the season, respectively...
These are the sparkplugs who will replace Buzz and Rhino, and they have been there all along. It just took the Crimson a little while to turn the ignition...