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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writers, they are not all veterans of TV or college humor magazines, but include playwrights and novelists. Even the writers' room has a different mood from that of most sitcoms. Instead of the usual Buddy and Sally rat-a-tat-tat of joke pitching, there are often 15 minutes of silence, as a new idea is considered. The writers feel their words are given an unusual amount of respect, by Grammer especially. "He will try every possible way to make something work before he questions it," says writer Jeffrey Richman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Five Cheers for Frasier | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...Would any of your friends have put you on the mailing list as a joke?" my father wondered aloud. Nope. As quirky as my friends might be, I couldn't see anyone signing me up for a senior citizens' discount account...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 9/25/1998 | See Source »

...does a stricken Russian government restore its liquidity? Nationalize vodka, of course. That may sound like a bad Russian joke, but in fact it was the first concrete economic measure announced by Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov. "By restoring the Soviet-era state monopoly on the alcohol industry, they hope to get as much hard currency as possible into state coffers," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "The problem is there's little chance that they have the infrastructure to enforce it." The state machinery required to police liquor distribution is in disarray, while the Russian underworld -- which has a huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia Revives Stoli-nism | 9/24/1998 | See Source »

...never find out much about any of them except that their bills are being paid by Irish terrorists. We know even less about the guys they are trying to beat out of the box. Indeed--and this is the best part of the joke--neither they nor we ever discover what the box contains. It is a McGuffin raised to the level of Platonic ideal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Abstractly Expressive | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...show will be done overseas, with interiors finished as usual on a Burbank, Calif., sound stage. A scaled-down crew of about 10 people is gearing up for the shoot, with the episode currently scheduled to air during November sweeps. The story line revolves around a practical joke played on Carey that finds him waking up drunk, penniless and without his passport in the communist country, only to find salvation at--where else?--McDonald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Village | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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