Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WHEN THEY FIND WORDS IN TIME THEY DON'T KNOW: One reader calls them "elitist bomfogs"--whatever that means...
...Like, You Know... (Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. E.T., ABC) digs into the quirks of L.A.: the obsession with celebrities' cars, the predominance of Harvard grads in the TV-writing business, the fascination with live police-car chases. Chris Eigeman (the cocky guy in Whit Stillman films) underplays the New Yorker perfectly, avoiding the overly neurotic. And in what may be the bravest turn ever, Jennifer Grey plays herself, with lots of jokes about her nose job, past boyfriends and desperate desire to be recognized...
Though the pacing is entirely different from Seinfeld's (and not quite right yet), It's Like, You Know... does rely on the same banter and wordplay, and it does it almost as well. Eventually, this series may resort to making earthquake jokes and doing bits about the smog, but until then, it is a very smart, knowing take on Los Angeles...
...would be easy to think that a magazine read by a gazillion people might have a strictly businesslike relation with its readers, but if you did, you'd be wrong. The connection we have is much more like that between old friends who know that despite all the nagging annoyances, letters can still be written, and they will still be read, no matter how cranky they may be. So what makes our readers testy? Here's a sampling of what gets their goat...
...Clinton as the newsmaker de la semaine. Readers cried uncle long ago, begging us to give them a break. No such luck. But considering that those stories generated more than 27,000 letters over the same years, we think we've seen our share of retaliatory thrusts. Nah, we know we have...