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...This isn't the first year TV has explored contentious families or divorce (see "Grace Under Fire"); sometimes, past producers would simply kill Mom, leaving a cute dad who could date (ABC's "Madigan Men" continues the widower-com tradition). But now the nontraditional family is practically mandatory, for reasons as much economic as social. After several years of being enthralled by big-city yuppie- coms, the networks realized, says NBC entertainment president Garth Ancier, that "the urban work setting was getting old." That meant a return to the domestic comedy - but with a difference. To stand out, says "Geena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Post-Nuclear Explosion | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...cute," Driskell says, but she adds that she doesn't feel one class ought to pay more for the same services...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff and David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Council Faces Money Crisis as Cash Runs Low | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...with the unthinkable but quite plausible: The Yankees lose. It will be the end of the era, and it will have come at the hands of the Mets. Yankees fans generally don't stoop to having much ill will for their younger siblings in Queens - they're kind of cute, the way they only win every once in a great while. But that doesn't mean they're allowed to supplant us. They'll be yapping about it all winter, like little dogs, and probably for years to come. And we probably won't get a rematch for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York, New York: The Subway Series | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...also funny. It's full of metaphors that raise wry smiles (a goodbye kiss "so formal it might as well have been wearing a tuxedo") and lots of pert social commentary, especially about a Los Angeles subspecies of sexual predators "whose highest accomplishments are that they were cute in high school." But the author is serious about his glove lady, Mirabelle Buttersfield, and about Ray Porter, the fiftysomething man Mirabelle admits into her solitary life. Once Martin fashioned funny-weird balloon animals; now, at 55, he creates funny-sad, nice and not-so-nice people, as real as your morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: But Seriously, Folks | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...good answer for the question 'How can you eat animals?'" says Glennon. Riva Detweiler, a 12-year-old from Lexington, Mass., who occasionally eats chicken, says she started to connect meat eating to killing animals after seeing the movie Babe at age 8. "The pig was so cute," says Riva, "and I just felt really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: I Was A Teen Vegetarian | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

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