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...Sometimes the freshmen do feel as though they're being talked down to, but then we try to fix that and do it differently," Mackay-Smith added...
...Family to the scattershot farce of Police Squad! If the new TV season had another Sergeant Bilko or Mary Tyler Moore Show, critics would be cheering the revival of network TV, not lamenting its demise. No, there's nothing wrong with the sitcom that a good show wouldn't fix...
...gags often get in the way. ABC's Home Improvement boasts an appealing star in Tim Allen and a nuclear family with no obviously malfunctioning units (at least no relatives from the Ozarks). But the show is hampered by its originating gimmick: Allen, the host of a TV fix-it show, is all thumbs as a repairman at home. There are some amusing gibes at power-tool macho ("What is your problem with the blender? It's the only blender on the block that can puree a brick"), but dubious prospects for long-term...
...could preserve a place in mainstream society -- with all its furtive hopes of family, friends and future -- by destroying the evidence of his homosexuality. He killed his "lovers" -- mostly blacks -- dismembered them, and may, in some cases, have devoured their remains. Crime is a logical, if messy, quick fix to the shortcomings of society...
...doctor and cause them to miss out on vital ongoing preventive advice. "A cornerstone of good medical care is continuity and getting to know a patient as an individual," explains Isaacman. "This service is going to discourage that kind of care and encourage patients to seek a quick, temporary fix...