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...some homes, it makes a terrific coaster. In others, it is a well-thumbed compendium of the week's TV programming, whose surrounding color pages are ignored. Yet for 36 years TV Guide has maintained a sturdy, if seldom appreciated, tradition of editorial quality in those pages. Along with celebrity profiles and background stories on upcoming programs, the magazine has done much enterprising reporting on the TV industry. Most notably, in 1982 it ran a 13-page story exposing alleged ethical violations during the making of the CBS documentary The Uncounted Enemy: A Viet Nam Deception -- charges that formed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Tarting Up of TV Guide | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

CITIZEN WELLES by Frank Brady (Scribner's; $24.95). Anecdote and scholarship are nicely balanced in this new biography of Orson Welles, whose roller- coaster career in stage, screen and radio covered the spectrum from classics to commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 15, 1989 | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

CITIZEN WELLES by Frank Brady (Scribner's; $24.95). Anecdote and scholarship are nicely balanced in this biography of the late Orson Welles, whose roller- coaster career in stage, screen and radio covered the spectrum from classics to commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 8, 1989 | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...amusement park located just southwest of "Mouse Town," the locals' term for Disney World. Boardwalk and Baseball, which dominates the skyline over surrounding orange groves, features both the Lipizzaner stallions and first baseman George Brett. For a dear $21, a fan can spend a day riding the roller coaster and taking in a contest at the Royals' 8,000-seat stadium, where some 400 major- and minor-league games were played last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Spring's Old Sweet Song | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...years old and living in Minnesota in 1968. But poring over 4,000 photos to make her final selections of 150 images, she felt "a shock of recognition and then the realization -- my God, all this happened in 1968?" Like her, you will rediscover the astonishing roller coaster of events, from the tragic (Robert Kennedy's vacant stare from the floor of the Los Angeles hotel pantry) to the trivial (a miniskirt dotted with peace symbols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Feb 20 1989 | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

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