Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show's habit of mingling real-life references (and occasional guest appearances) with its fictional TV news crew is carried to a new level in the baby-shower episode. The visiting TV newswomen do surprisingly well in their cameo appearances, delivering quips about such things as balancing career and motherhood. (Says Williams: "I once asked Garrick Utley if he had to make a boom-boom.") But the encounter simply lends a bogus aura of credibility to a show that seems phony at its soul. And why do all the guests at the shower come from the soft-news world...
Nothing on TV ages faster than a family show. The regulars at the Cheers bar or the M*A*S*H unit can stick around for years, with only occasional cast changes to accommodate stars who want to get into movies. But kids have a bad habit of growing up. Anyone tuning in after a few years' absence to this week's final episode of The Cosby Show may get a shock. Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner), a junior-high student when the series began, is graduating from college. Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe), once a pudgy preteen, is in college...
...inherent in the work of Keneally (who also wrote novels such as Cut Rate Kingdom and Gossip from the Forest), creating a multi-layered play which deals with issues that are very much important today. Within the confines of the time frame, Wertenbaker discusses the criminal character (is it habit or "innate tendency"?); the importance of art (is it "an expression of civilization" or a waste of time?); and patriotism (should these new immigrants try to "remember England" or transfer their allegiance to the "iniquitous shore" of Australia...
...employment as a tourguide of old British manors comes to an end when her employer, Lottie Schoen, discovers Douffet's habit of embellishing history when she finds it too dull...
...already have money in the market, either through a long-standing program of periodic investments in mutual funds or through your retirement plan at work, bully for you. Keep it up. The habit is such a good one, I wouldn't recommend breaking it, even though the market is overpriced. (If you're anywhere near needing some of those funds, though, lighten...