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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The show's dark tone has apparently given ABC executives some nervous moments. They reportedly asked Bochco to redo the first episode, adding some comic relief; it now contains a subplot about a woman seeking a divorce because her husband thinks he's Elvis. Other problems remain. Civil Wars has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divorce, Bochco-Style | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

Most Y-CHOPs are white. The evolving MoVal family has one parent commuting to work and one staying home with two children in a single-family dwelling, in a safe neighborhood with church and grandparents nearby. You can almost see Ward, June, Wally and Beaver Cleaver in the house across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close-Up: Two Boom Towns Moreno Valley Home of the Y-Chop | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

DIRE STRAITS: ON EVERY STREET (Warner Bros.). Likely you've caught the first single, Calling Elvis, on the radio. The rest of the record is similar: edgy, mysterious, insinuating, with some typically masterly guitar work by Mark Knopfler. Dire Straits is the most stylishly surreptitious group in all of rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 11, 1991 | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

But it is such a safe and cliched form of rebellion for the town to fall for. Yes, he rides his cycle without a helmet, but he is just a nice, handsome, kind, brave white boy who doesn't even use profanity in his raps. He is Elvis in gang...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Richochet Mixes Senseless Violena With Gratuitous Sex A Good Night Out | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

Behind the scenes, a delighted Ferraro has trimmed his sideburns and got out of the Elvis business so that he can devote all his energy to Gladiators. "Danny and me have invented the nuclear bomb," he says. "And now it's exploding."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real-Life Davids vs. Goliaths | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

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