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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time-travel capering of Sliders on Fox, from Showtime's The Outer Limits and Poltergeist: The Legacy to the fact-based (or factoidal) Unsolved Mysteries and Sightings. Two of the series, The Sentinel on UPN and Fox's new Millennium, from The X-Files creator Chris Carter, are psychic cop shows. The media sky is darker with eerie phenomena than a UFOlogist's nightscape. As a serial killer whispers in the first episode of Millennium (the creepiest TV premiere since Twin Peaks), "You can't stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INVASION HAS BEGUN! | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

...public-relations man for an Atlantic City casino, but that job requires a license, which, according to the Casino Control Commission, he never obtained. Working as a gofer and advance man for Democratic campaigns in the 1980s--it was on the 1984 Hart campaign that he met ex-cop Marceca--he became known as a teller of tall tales, often turning his bit parts into leading roles. In 1986, after working on Colorado Representative Tim Wirth's successful Senate bid, Livingstone landed a job he was happy to call "director of transition." The job consisted of moving furniture and boxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN BEHIND THE MESS | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...charges resulted from a six-to eight-week drug investigation by the Harvard University Police Department, which was partially facilitated by student informers and an undercover cop posing as a student...

Author: By Amy M. Rabinowitz, | Title: Arraigned Seniors Will Not Graduate | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...Kerry voted against the death penalty for cop killers," Weld said...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: Buchanan Shocks New England With N.H. Victory | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...surprise that Martin Cruz Smith, author of the Soviet-era Russian cop novel Gorky Park, has written the most interesting and richly textured crime story of the season. What is unexpected about Rose (Random House; 364 pages; $25) is its setting: not the disorder of present-day Russia but the rigidly stratified society of a Welsh coal-mining town toward the end of the 19th century. As must be true in a period thriller, the setting drives the plot and makes the crime--in this case, the disappearance and presumed murder of a young and idealistic clergyman--seem inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: VICTORIAN SECRETS | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

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