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...Time. But the most heartfelt lamentations may be taking place offscreen, in the executive suites at ABC, CBS and NBC. The demise of those two long-running shows is the latest evidence that hard times have hit one of TV's most durable genres, the half-hour situation comedy...
...state of the sitcom is no laughing matter. Though half-hour comedies still make up a considerable chunk of the network schedules-22 will be on next fall, compared with 24 last fall- the attrition rate has become alarming. Of the 20 sitcoms introduced by the three networks in the past year, only four-CBS' Kate & Allie and After MASH, ABC's Webster and NBC's Night Court-were renewed for next season. In the ratings for the 1983-84 season, the genre made its worst showing in 30 years: not a single sitcom that...
...next day Reagan used almost exactly those words during a half-hour nationally televised speech. "We have provided just enough aid to avoid outright disaster, but not enough to resolve the crisis, so El Salvador is being left to slowly bleed to death," he declared. Conveying both anger and urgency, the President painted a harsh picture of Soviet, Cuban and Nicaraguan attempts to "spread Communism by force throughout the hemisphere." Alternately evoking that alarming picture and declaring the Administration's commitment to programs of longterm, peaceful economic and social assistance for Central America, Reagan implicitly justified his Administration...
...Boston affiliate, showed a half-hour program last week called This Secret Should Be Told, featuring Therapist-Ventriloquist Susan Linn and her two star puppets, a girl duck and a boy lion. The puppets encourage children to "tell a trusted adult" whenever they have been touched in a peculiar...
...would probably be considered extraordinary if half of the members of the Harvard football team decided they had or wanted to leave practice a half-hour early each day because the last few drills were tough or boring or because they had to study. They of course would never become a solid team, or, at the least, would be much less effective than they could have been. Similarly, the case for persuading Council members to stay and intelligently consider all the topics brought forth seems strong if not irrefutable...