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...more easily to syndication. Which may explain why some programmers and sitcom producers are resorting to a desperation move, somewhere between getting Vince McMahon to start a new football league and formally declaring bankruptcy: innovation. Rejecting the conventional pacing and look of sitcoms, trusting viewers to laugh without an elbow in the ribs, a small set of new shows--including ABC's dark police sitcom The Job and Showtime's behind-the-music comedy The Chris Isaak Show--are attempting to redefine funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: More Than Yuks Redux | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...suffered scrapes, bruises and an injured elbow in the accident, according to eyewitnesses...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Biker Hit By Van on Mass. Ave. | 9/26/2000 | See Source »

...unable to speak by the time she came to Haven House, Lane controls her world by computer. The ALS Association of Georgia, with help from Lane's church, installed $2,000 worth of software in her omnipresent laptop. She can move her left shoulder enough to make her elbow control a mouse, allowing her to scroll through the alphabet--and communicate. Taped up on two walls of her room are one-page instructions to the staff that detail just how she is to be positioned at the computer and given drinks, including the angle of the straw in her mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Stories: In Their Last Days On This Earth | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...three world championship titles to a list of international laurels. Away from her foils, the stunning 28-year-old has enhanced her celebrity status with flourishes of wit and charm that have made her a star with a larger French public that doesn't know an epee from its elbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summer Olympics: Laura Flessel-Colovic | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

Eastwood's message is clear: he wants Hollywood to see how an old man can play a young man's game. Find a story that allows elbow room for star quality; hand the old boys some new toys; don't try to be a kid. Deep into Act 3 of his career, Eastwood still has the goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Clint Does It the Old Way | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

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