Word: frontier
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Well, here's a fine how-de-do. The networks keep churning out trendy sitcoms and hip ensemble dramas in a desperate (and largely futile) attempt to attract young viewers. Then CBS trots out an old-fashioned frontier drama, slips it almost sheepishly into the little-watched Saturday-night schedule, and gives it the clumsiest title on TV, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Darned if the homespun series doesn't catch on. Aside from coattail successes like Love and War (which follows Murphy Brown) and The Jackie Thomas Show (after Roseanne), it's the biggest new hit of the season...
...always thought of it as living on the racial frontier," Attah says...
...wait a minute. It's 1962; the New Frontier has been proclaimed. As Woolsey heads to Key West, Florida, to preview his latest epic, Mant (half- man, half-ant and all knockoff of cult classics like The Fly and Them!), he and his works appear to have reached a new frontier of their own -- total cultural irrelevancy. Except for one thing: the Cuban missile crisis is on, and suddenly the brave new world is actually contemplating a disaster beyond Woolsey's most profitable dreams. It's a nicely imagined coincidence, and from it Joe Dante has fashioned a neat little...
...gang was framed by a rival hacker who liquidated the Learning Link himself. The defendants' court-appointed lawyers claim the feds have built an elaborate Mafia-like case against rebellious yet relatively harmless kids. "Being arrogant and obnoxious is not a crime," argues attorney Michael Godwin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that defends exploratory hacking. As for Masters of Disaster, he adds, "it's just a way-cool name. Teenagers aren't going to call themselves the Electronic Birdwatchers Society." While most charges remain to be proved, in December two MOD members pleaded guilty to selling Rosenfeld passwords...
...conceal the Iran-contra deal, copies of his secret memos ended up in the backup tapes made every night by White House system operators. "The phrase 'reasonable expectation of privacy' is a joke, because nobody reasonably expects any privacy nowadays," says Michael Godwin, general counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a not-for-profit group devoted to protecting the civil liberties of people using electronic networks...