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...After nearly four decades of sweet, wholesome TV clans, from Father Knows Best to The Cosby Show, a new clutch of anti-family sitcoms is exploring the squalid underbelly of domestic life. And making a killing. ABC's Roseanne is the No. 1-rated show on TV. The Simpsons, on the Fox network, is a smash mid- season success; it and Fox's Married . . . With Children, airing back-to- back on Sunday nights, have jumped into the Nielsen Top 20, an unprecedented triumph for TV's fourth network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Home Is Where The Venom Is | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...figure of a sphinx his own. The mythical creature, at rest in a blazing desert landscape, raises one blue finger to its lips to demand tranquillity with an inaudible "Shhh!" The etching titled New York Times, 1974, shows square-headed city folk blown about by the wind as they clutch copies of their favorite paper. Other images add a message to the mirth. The Feast, 1983, packs a chilling political punch: a skull-headed figure sits at a table munching on a sardine-like snack that turns out to be a plateful of missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Where Fantasy Teases Reality | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

With the Crimson coming off its poorest season in six years--Harvard finished with a sub-.500 record (13-14-1) for the first time since 1984--Donato's job will not be an easy one. Butthe forward, who is known as a clutch player onthe ice and an outspoken leader in the lockerroom, is expected to be a loud and visible teamleader...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Donato Chosen Icemen's Captain | 3/8/1990 | See Source »

...Message to the Planet is overly fond of this intrusive nudging. Here is the latest Murdoch female masochist in full lament: "Franca contained in her breast a storm of anguish and violence so terrible that she had at times, when she was alone and longing to 'break down,' to clutch her breast." Terrible, for that matter, is a favorite word. So are appalling, awful, horrible, dreadful and all forms of the word dark. "These dreadful ideas, horrors from the past now poised to darken the future" is typical of Dame Iris at her most overwrought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murdochisms | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

Ralph James has been the key to Crimson success thus far. In wins over Dartmouth and Yale, the junior forward was awesome, connecting on several clutch three-pointers to build large Harvard advantages...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: M. Cagers Travel to Penn and Princeton | 2/9/1990 | See Source »

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