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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First the Inauguration, then the State of the Union. The White House settled on Feb. 5 for the President's big speech. But CBS said a long-standing contract obligated the network to televise the Miss USA pageant that evening. The White House mulled it over and elected to move the speech to Feb. 4. "Oh, Mr. McCurry! Were you all concerned that Clinton would lose viewers, or did the President, um, er, want to watch the pageant himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jan. 20, 1997 | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...Asian American Association (AAA) is expecting more than 1,000 participants at its Intercollegiate Conference scheduled for Valentine's Day weekend, organizers said. The event will include speeches, a fashion show and a dinner with former CBS anchor Connie Chung...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AAA Hosts Valentine's Day Conference; 1,000 Students Will Attend | 1/13/1997 | See Source »

...STREETS (CBS) Ken Olin's thirtysomething days are long gone. Here he's a desperate detective--the central figure in one of the more profound crime dramas ever to hit a television screen. Lyrically bleak in tone, EZ Streets is a haunting meditation on moral ambiguity, on city politics and--most effectively--on fate. Alas, the dismally rated series was abruptly canceled after two airings. Alone, perhaps, we anxiously await its scheduled return next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: THE BEST TELEVISION OF 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...these ready-made, media-marinated catchphrases, usually of the in-your-face (to use another) variety. Conversations, movies, E-mail, ads, lovers' quarrels, punditry and stand-up comedy can barely be conducted without resort to an annoyingly popular riposte. A random gleaning, from just one Cybill episode on CBS, produced: Hel-lo-oh!; Oh, pulleeze; Get a life; Yadda yadda; Yesss! and Haven't we had enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YADDA, YADDA, YADDA | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...with godchildren"). This year she has also graced us with her Martha by Mail product catalog, each item--like the set of "Araucana egg soaps"--a homage to muted chic. And now we have her second annual Christmas special: Welcome Home for the Holidays (Dec. 10, 8 p.m. ET, CBS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: GLAD TIDINGS SHE BRINGS | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

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