Word: gracefulness
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This isn't the first year TV has explored contentious families or divorce (Grace Under Fire). Past producers would sometimes simply kill off Mom, leaving a cute dad who could date (ABC's Madigan Men continues the widower-com tradition). But now the nontraditional family is practically mandatory, for reasons as much economic as social. After years of big-city yuppie-coms, the networks realized, says NBC entertainment president Garth Ancier, that "the urban work setting was getting old." That meant a return to the domestic comedy--but now, says Geena creator Terry Minsky, "it's not enough...
Simple. He could hit and throw and run with a gliding grace, and when he could no longer do those things he...well, he looked great in a suit. But as Richard Ben Cramer establishes in his absolutely persuasive DiMaggio: The Hero's Life (Simon & Schuster; 546 pages; $28), Joe D. had a secret. He knew the power of silence. The less he gave, standing remote and noble and regally aloof, the more the world took it as evidence of dignity...
...know you're against gay marriage, but sometimes when you watch Will & Grace, don't you think, "They're so charming...
...Will & Grace, the TV show. A. I've never heard...
...negotiate at all right now is difficult for the leaders on both sides. Barak's minority coalition now governs under the shadow of its constant vulnerability to being thrown out in a parliamentary no-confidence vote. And even if they're prepared to allow his government a period of grace amid the current turmoil, the violence of the past six weeks has reduced the Israeli public's confidence in the peace process to an all-time low. On the Palestinian side, overwhelming public skepticism toward the peace process has given way to increasingly open defiance of Arafat's efforts...