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...woman with a high-class English background, she is self-consciously eccentric and her air of "ravaged elegance" is rather unconvincing. Even worse, many of the characters have a distressing habit of prattling in a stereotyped patois reminiscent of Uncle Tom's Cabin: "Oh, God, Selma, how is I goin' get money for fix me teeth...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: A Middling Debut | 10/4/1991 | See Source »

...death of their parents, are part of a wrong-side-of-the-tracks crowd known as the Greasers. Their snooty, letter-sweatered antagonists are called the Socs (that's So-shes). The show pushes its James Dean angst a bit hard ("What do I got? Nothin'! Just another greaser goin' nowhere"). But the milieu is sharply etched, and rarely have the disaffected been so affecting. The best drama series yet from TV's hottest network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 16, 1990 | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...walked faster and you called out again: "Hey, where you goin'? Wait...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, | Title: To the Man Who Left Me Alone | 4/11/1990 | See Source »

...Goin' Back to Cali...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Netwomen Host Wake Forest | 3/17/1990 | See Source »

...departure and later disappearance of his ex-wife Frenesi, a onetime '60s radical who was seduced into becoming a Government informer by a notoriously malevolent federal prosecutor named Brock Vond. He has apparently not finished hounding the Wheelers and others. As one observer notes, "Nobody knows just what's goin' on, except there's a nut case leading a heavily armed strike force loose in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spores of Paranoia | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

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