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...Although considerably less than that, his Cable News Network (CNN) is nevertheless a catalyst for a burgeoning revolution in television. Turner has shown that there is a substantial and eager audience for news all the time, not just in the confined hours at the beginning and end of the workday. In two years his 24-hour-a-day service has grown to be sent into 13.9 million households via cable TV. According to the A.C. Nielsen TV ratings company, CNN attracts viewers in more than 5.8 million of those homes in an average week. Editorially, it scoops the Big Three...
...revive the spirit of an earlier era they "are a lesson not only in ensemble performing but also in cohabitation." The sheer energy of the show indicates that they have worked hard to merge their personalities and lifestyles with those of the characters they play--a 24-hour-a-day pysche-up technique. And because they generally succeed, one is tempted to forgive their self-conscious stab at hippydom, as well as the program notes urging the audience to "stand up and join in confronting [the show's] issues, which have taken fresh meaning in recent months...
This crusade "is a 26-hour-a-day project" now for Hoffman. "I came yp [to Cambridge] for family business," the activist, who spent seven years underground hiding from a cocaine conviction, says. He adds that otherwise he would never have taken time off from his fight. But he was in town, so he participated in last night's Miller's Court debate on civil disobedience...
...James Baker, and Deaver-had achieved a kind of supereminence. With restrictions on the President's time for months to come, this troika's power will grow more entrenched. It remains to be seen how well this apparatus would serve if events called for a 24-hour-a-day President...
Stockman, a bachelor, pursues his 14-hour-a-day schedule, which includes lobbying Congressmen and haggling with Cabinet officers, with a special sense of urgency. If the Administration cannot quickly build support for its unorthodox economic ideas, then Ronald Reagan may fail his central domestic test. Stockman, with his knack for hyperbole, has warned of "incalculable erosion of G.O.P. momentum, unity and public confidence," if the Reagan program is not well on its way to enactment by midyear. There is personal urgency as well. Circumstances and Stockman's own aggressive zeal have made him the most visible and influential...