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Paranoia could be the only sane strategy for getting through the '90s. When sci-fi solon William Gibson is asked if his fiction is an optimistic or pessimistic view of the future, he replies, "A realistic view of the present. I don't think of myself as a futurist. I think of myself as someone who inhabits a baffling and in many ways terrifying present in 1996. Science fiction is always about the year in which it is written. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a McCarthyite fantasy. Today, I think, the alien is inside, a virus of one kind...
...significant," he says. And NBC's Warren Littlefield was not looking for metaphors when he programmed an entire Saturday evening of fall shows with spooky themes. He was listening to the voice of his 11-year-old son, to whom the fantastic is as real as it is to Gibson. "I can't get him to watch a classic western on television," Littlefield says and repeats this recent conversation. Son: "So let me get this straight. The horse doesn't fly?" Father: "No, it just rides across the desert." Son: "I'm outta here...
...called piroplasmosis. Despite objections from Georgia officials, more than a dozen foreign horses that have tested positive for the disease will enter the U.S. for the Games. Americans to watch: husband and wife David and Karen O'Connor in the three-day event, Michael Matz in jumping and Michelle Gibson in dressage...
JOSHUA QUITTNER has the kind of job William Gibson might have foreseen. Every weekday in cyberspace, Quittner produces an irreverent column called the Netly News that appears on TIME Warner's Pathfinder Website http://pathfinder.com/Netly/) Then, in the physical world, once a month he rides a few floors down in the elevator to write a story for TIME's more traditional vehicle. Having aggressively covered the progress of the Communications Decency Act for Netly, Quittner was well positioned to write about the landmark court decision this week that found the law "profoundly repugnant" and unconstitutional. "This is a story...
...Koppel, the show's masterly anchorman, is certainly entitled to toot his own horn, and Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television, which he has co-authored with former Nightline producer Kyle Gibson (Times Books; 477 pages; $25), has its self-indulgent excesses. It is essentially a scrapbook of the show's milestones, major interviews, bookers' war stories and amusing anecdotes, which can dribble on like one of those endless Nightline "town meetings...