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So Joffe has Demi throw twee tea parties which go horribly awry when all the guests are sentenced to hang for witchcraft. The evil magistrate has tightened the nooses round the hapless damsels' necks and with unimaginable cruelty is teasing his victims by rocking the rickety bench which stands between...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: Blush With Shame | 10/12/1995 | See Source »

The show has successfully weathered SATURDAY NIGHT DEAD headlines in the past, but this year it is facing its gravest crisis yet. Last season SNL was bombarded with fierce criticism not only from the public and the press but also from unhappy performers and network executives like NBC West Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: STILL ALIVE, BARELY | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

As Senators Carol Mosely Braun and Paul Wellstone courageously blocked the $16 billion recission bill scheduled to become law this week, official Washington made a belated effort to cover the immediate harm which such cutbacks will inflict on the poor and elderly. Yet the spectacle of serious advocacy on Capitol...

Author: By Frank A. Pasquale, | Title: Making Power Permanent | 7/18/1995 | See Source »

You can bet your velvet-covered pangolin that few readers will be distracted by the loose grammar and exotic similes. Conroy will simply overwhelm them with his leapfrogging plots and romantic scenery: a movie-set Rome, a travel-book Venice and the postcard-pretty South Carolina coast. Too tame? Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: PAT CONROY: FIRST-PERSON PORTENTOUS | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

The Santa Clause and The Flintstones. Deliberately inane, lowest-common-denominator movies (talk about "coarseness," Senator), they still manage to present father figures who are, respectively, sullenly distracted and moronically inept.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO, BUT HE READ THE POLLS | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

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