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...Lear comedies of the early '70s went out of fashion, sitcoms retreated to escapist fluff; now realism and relevance are coming back into vogue. The networks, moreover, are fond of high-profile, easily promotable episodes that can draw attention to a series. ("Next week on I Love Valerie: a crack dealer moves into the neighborhood.") Equally important, many writers and producers, tired of feeding the sitcom gag machine, are looking for ways to stretch the old formulas. Says Hugh Wilson, creator of Frank's Place: "If you play Big Band all the time, every so often you want to improvise...
That was the theme, implicit or explicit, of comments around the world last week. Foreign government and financial leaders have an all-important stake in U.S. economic policy. The worldwide market crack is already hurting their economies; for example, it has delayed European programs to privatize industry by selling chunks of government-owned companies to individual investors. An American recession, should that be the result of a continued stock slump, could quickly travel abroad...
Bartsch told The Spectator, "Someone misunderstood that and said `booze?' and I said `Yeah, right'--it was very sarcastic--`sure, booze, crack and dirty needles...
...remark was construed as rascist because of implications that the Black and minority children who live in Harlem, where Columbia is located, would enjoy seeing such things as booze and crack at the carnival, according to Melissa Michelson, a reporter for The Spectator...
Dennis Orsen's reasons for being at the festival are mainly evangelical. A balding Lutheran pastor in a pale suit, the peripatetic Orsen recently settled in nearby Steubenville and found the local culture as difficult to crack as a Zen riddle. Someone suggested he read James Wright. And has this helped at all? "There's one poem about football -- when I saw that, I said to myself, boy, that explains a lot of what I'm working with," he answers...