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...show, however, MST3K may be kaput. Citing a ratings dip, the Comedy Central network first cut the number of episodes from 24 a year to a paltry but precious six, then banished the show to hours appropriate only for Psychic Friends Network infomercials (2 a.m. weeknights, 7 a.m. Sunday and the big prime-time slot, 5 p.m. Saturday). Late last year Doug Herzog, the new president of Comedy Central, said the network was not picking up the show. Negotiations to devise a new format were unfruitful; two weeks ago, Herzog gave Best Brains, MST3K's production company, permission...
...other guys come across as dour sourpusses. That's why things like my flat-tax proposal are catching on." But it's not just the flat tax. In California last week, Forbes' audiences were clearly taken with his ideas for reforming Social Security. "Everyone knows it's going kaput," Forbes said. "I'd leave it as is for those who'll retire in the next 12 years. For the rest, I'd create individual retirement accounts so there's money left when they get old." "I was impressed," says Don Fisher, founder of the Gap store chain, in a common...
...whom 20th Century Fox entrusted this $50 million thriller. Nearly two years after Preston's article appeared -- time enough for him to expand it into a book, The Hot Zone, due in stores in a few weeks -- the film had not begun shooting. Last week, in fact, it looked kaput. Or, as a chagrined insider euphemized, "It's sleeping...
...vedanya? Kaput? Sayonara? Good...
...minutes after 10 p.m., as the electronic counter tabulated the vote in progress, Democratic party whips realized that just three members controlled the outcome: Williams, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky of Pennsylvania and Ray Thornton of Arkansas. If two of them voted no, the bill would be kaput. Williams went to Thornton, hoping that he would vote yes, thereby removing the need for Williams to do so, but the Representative from Little Rock had never intended to go with Clinton. He had already made his concession to the Democratic leadership, which was to withhold his no decision until late enough...