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...remarkable that so many of TV's most noted comedies--The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H*--never made it to No. 1, while plenty of junk did ascend to that pinnacle. As fun as it would be to go against the conventional, middlebrow wisdom and say The Beverly Hillbillies possessed a sly, Twain-like wit, recent viewings confirm that it was as crude as everyone has always said. The Happy Days-Laverne and Shirley era is another sorry one. So it could be argued on behalf of Seinfeld that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Goodbye Already | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...novel, Freedomland (Broadway Books; 546 pages; $25), a thriller in which plot grows inevitably from place, and place seems utterly real. The most powerful impression a reader feels in these two novels is the sense, in a scene set in a chaotic emergency room or in the junk-filled scrubland between a black housing project and a shabby white neighborhood, that yes, this is what such a backwater would look like, sound like, smell like. And that this, as events of Price's long, heavy narration grind toward resolution, is how people sheltering in such a place would claw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fishy In New Jersey? | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...company, owned by Houston-based junk bond wizard Charles Hurwitz, would just as soon swat this photogenic Butterfly off her tree. It has disrupted her sleep with air horns and floodlights, placed 24-hour guards around the tree in an aborted effort to cut off supplies from her support team, and sent in chain saws and helicopters to harvest around her. On a video distributed by Earth First, helicopter blades are shown churning the branches of Butterfly's aerie, as a hard hat shouts from below, "Get ready for a bad hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Julia Hill, Butterfly: Five Months At 180 Ft. | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...send unsolicited junk e-mail; people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ode to Technology | 4/28/1998 | See Source »

...mail is great, but what about spam? All this unsolicited junk is clogging up bandwidth and becoming not only a nuisance, but a security threat to institutions and individuals. It is estimated that 33 percent of all e-mail processed by the world's largest on-line service, America Online, is junk mail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ode to Technology | 4/28/1998 | See Source »

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