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...altogether different fat chick," says Roseanne, comparing herself with Rosie O'Donnell. She's right. Her new talk show has none of the comfy good cheer of Rosie's; it's cruder, more sensational and also more serious. Mostly the debut was banal, if often profane, as Whoopi Goldberg pontificated about Monica Lewinsky and Roseanne interviewed a tiresome Linda Tripp impersonator. But Roseanne and Goldberg's conversation with three teenage mothers was surprisingly simple and affecting. Roseanne's emotions are not polished to an Oprah-like smoothness, and she can be appealingly authentic, in her rare quieter moments...
...forced some healthy choices, a necessary filtering reaction to the information age: so much is available around the clock that viewers and readers become editors themselves, making judgments not about what they can find out but about what they want to know. "The general discourse had been getting cruder and cruder," observes Judith Martin, a.k.a. Miss Manners. "Privacy and discretion had almost disappeared from the general public usage before the scandal. Now that the salacious nosiness has been carried to this logical conclusion, there's been a reaction on the side of propriety. Now, this is a society that...
...constellation of devious schemes intended to sabotage the politics and people who do not please you. Nice try, wrong country. You and your Machiavellian ambitions would be right at home in any Third World country run by a dictator. There you could hand out lighter pay envelopes to much cruder henchmen to do your bidding. MEL ZALOUDEK River Grove...
Fans of Comedy Central can delight in yet another unfortunate death for parkaboy Kenny in "The Spirit of Christmas," surely the highlight of the festival and somewhat of a heavyweight amongst its cruder cousins...
...used long ago. And then there was that vexing question of his family's nationality. Romance novelist Dame Barbara Cartland, Diana's stepgrandmother, spoke for xenophobic Britons everywhere when she sniffed, "My only concern is that this Dodi is a foreigner." A writer for London's Daily Mail was cruder, warning Diana that by marrying into the clan of Al Fayeds she would be "trading in one prison, the life-style of the royal family," for something worse, "an Arab...