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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another year of winning the ratings war, and that's it. That's not the way you grow a network." The only thing that was growing at this network was the list of jokes about it. Rush Limbaugh recently referred to "the three major networks -- four, if you count...
...photos, it has nothing fresh to say about culture wars, Republican hypocrisy, women's self-imposed lack of liberation or any of its other thematic targets. Its best lines concern the clothes sense of upper-class women ("Don't you ever feel like Chanel is really all you can count on?") or the self- absorption of their husbands ("Cuddling? There's hell on earth. How do you know when you're done?") A gay male art pornographer and a lesbian ex-con, gurus to dimwit straights, induce a conservative presidential hopeful to striptease, his wife to pose naked and their...
...count, O.J. Simpson has been called an American hero about 4,392,979 times since being charged with murdering his wife. The night of the chase alone, there were roughly 987,763 such references by commentators like Barbara Walters, who found themselves with hours of airtime to fill and nothing to say. Even the U.S. Senate got in on the chorus. In chamber on Friday, the chaplain offered a prayer for O.J.: "Our hearts go out to him . . . Our nation has been traumatized by the fall of a great hero." To this moment, I have not heard Nicole Simpson referred...
...less madcap romp than pointed satire. The Roaring Twenties return, with characters modeled on colorful real-life denizens of that era, and the setting is Maxim's, then a well-known Lisbon night spot. Through its doors parade a fascist army general with an eye for beautiful women, a count who has gambled away his fortune and a swindler who boldly tricked the London printer of Portuguese banknotes to run off an extra 100 million escudos for him. The money set him up in banking, mining and a railroad in the Congo before he landed in jail...
...does that mean we should perhaps spare some human empathy even for the low-powered losers who are the usual murderers in our society? Is their tragedy, perhaps, also complex? Does their remorse count for anything? Should we hesitate to demand death for death in their cases...