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It's oddly compelling to watch network television die. Executives whine about straying advertisers, overbid on sports and berate the Nielsens. Best of all, they're willing to air just about anything. You've got footage of a family caught on top of a rampaging circus elephant? A man urinating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: When Good Networks Go Bad | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

But Nash is right about the audience. This past November, the last time Fox ran four weeks of shockumentaries against NBC's Thursday-night lineup, it beat the peacock network in males 18 to 49 and adults 18 to 34. John Miller, NBC's executive vice president of advertising, promotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: When Good Networks Go Bad | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

1. "[T]he smartest, edgiest, most human and handsomely acted romantic comedy in elephant years...It has two births, two deaths, five sexual affairs and no special effects."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 1998 TIME Current Events Quiz | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

Giving new meaning to the term "mixed medium," an artist who layers his canvases with acrylics, oils and elephant dung last week received Britain's top art award, the Turner Prize. CHRIS OFILI, born in England to Nigerian parents, said a trip to Africa inspired him to use the excrement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 14, 1998 | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

It's nice to see entrepreneurs keep trying to elevate Vegas above the rest of the gambling resorts with new luxury hotels, but when I read how they are trying to attract the "big spenders," it kind of irks me. It's the middle class that made Vegas what it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

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