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...indistinct character of Ellen Morgan, who seems to drift wackily through each show without ever offering much in the way of believable motivation, even in the elastic sense that usually applies to sitcoms. For a while she owned a bookstore, but the profession seemed more an arbitrary choice to inject "workplace humor." After the second season she stopped dating--some writers say because DeGeneres was uncomfortable with overtly heterosexual story lines, although she says she simply wasn't interested in doing a show that focused on relationships. As it happens, the code working title of the coming-out script...
...FIBROIDS in retreat? A preliminary trial finds that the benign tumors shrink markedly when doctors inject uterine arteries with a solution containing tiny plastic particles. The injections cut off the blood supply to the fibroids--apparently without harming the uterus...
That is by no means the most devastating loss stemming from a biotech failure in the '90s. Centocor Inc. fell from $60 to $5; Xoma Corp., from $32 to $1; Synergen Inc., from $73 to $4--all because of hyped septic-shock drugs that didn't work. Inject those babies into your 401(k), and you'll never retire. And these aren't isolated cases. Viren Mehta, a biotech expert at Mehta and Isaly, keeps track of biotech bombs. He says there have been 14 major disasters this decade. But even if you avoid specific product failures...
Peter Jennings, the ABC anchor, found it necessary to interrupt Brinkley: "You can't say that on the air, Mr. Brinkley." To which Brinkley rightly responded, "Well, I'm not on the air." He's not, anymore, and he is finally liberated to inject some reality into TV-land, which otherwise throws up as a knee-jerk reaction those democratic platitudes we have all had to tolerate since news became corporate domain. Journalism as honesty? Journalism as the relation of reality? Journalism as acerbic sarcasm? Nyet. "You can't say that on the air, Mr. Brinkley...
...band chooses to sacrifice perfect sound for energy. And even Plumtree's less accomplished songs can't help but inject an adrenaline shot into the listener...