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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insufferably) as a middle-aged widower in NBC's Empty Nest. Meanwhile, Kate Jackson reprises Diane Keaton's role as a Manhattan yuppie trying to juggle a baby and a high- pressure corporate job in NBC's Baby Boom. The pilot episode plays too much like a Reader's Digest version of the movie (both written by Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers). But this satire of motherhood in the fast lane can be clever: Mom tells little Elizabeth over the phone, "I'll be home in half a Sesame Street." The Big Band music and Woody Allen-like intertitles give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The New Season: Boomers and Humors | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...news and commentary show on the Moscow channel, sends out a young journalist with an "express camera" to film slice-of-life vignettes on city streets. The show also cajoles officials to take the hot seat for questions called in by viewers. The Leningrad channel broadcasts the provocative cultural digest Fifth Wheel, focusing on "superfluous people" in the arts and letters, as well as the offbeat 600 Seconds news show, in which commentator Alexander Nevzorov races against a flashing digital clock to summarize the day's events, from cultural calendar to police blotter. Journalist Ott from Estonian TV has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Late Night With Alex And Dima | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...next step is kind of a double step," Kaufman said. "They're going to be discussing each one in the faculty. The steering committee is going to listen to the faculty discussion and digest the preliminary reports...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: HLS Review Committees Make Initial Suggestions | 9/16/1988 | See Source »

...million young adults who cannot keep up with the intellectual demands of an increasingly technological economy or with their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan. In addition to the 700,000 who, despite twelve years of what passes for formal education, have such poor reading skills that they cannot digest a newspaper or fill out a job application, an identical number drop out, forfeiting whatever educational benefits might be osmotically obtained from simply showing up for class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Getting What You Pay For | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

Black delegates at the Republican Convention were about as common as photographers for Reader's Digest. Less than 3% of the delegates were black. But while black faces were rare on the Superdome floor, a conspicuously high number turned up on the podium or in the VIP box: Muhammad Ali, former Transportation Secretary William Coleman, and Fred Brown, chairman of the National Black Republican council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans: A Big Time in the Big Easy | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

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