Word: linked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...favor of the Link (the magazine, not the physical structure connecting two science labs), Hist-and-Lit concentrators (because FM's pissed that it's not done with its thesis), and complaining (who cares about your damn thesis anyway...
...send your our tunes, should we send you our Simpsons or our Partridges" department the newest nationally circulated college mag. The Link, arrived in dorms around the country this week. Their music reviews, curiously enough, are rated according to a sliding family-sitcom scale; this week, every album reviewed scored a "Brady" or above (the highest rating is "Simpson," the lowest rating is "Cleaver"). FM guessed that the albums were judged according to what sort of families would listen to them, with the Simpsons tuning in to Elvis Costello and the Partridges preferring the intense emotion of Tori Amos...
...addition to their mix-and-match approach to different forms of entertainment. The Link seemed to jump at every chance to show they're on the cutting edge of both media culture and digital communications. The Link advertises itself on the bottom of many pages as "LINK digital mag." One blurb reads: "Want to read more reviews, tour dates, release schedules, vote for your fave new CD?" Another urges readers to "Be the mag at 317-465-9455...or spin us some messages at editor@linkmag.com (And if you're playin' in the band, send us your tunes...
...newly christened Link got FM thinking that publications don't have to depend on massive door drops for widespread circulation. After pausing from its thesis for long enough to catch up on some Sunday reading FM had this...
Though classic TV escapism, these shows may be filling a societal need. "They put an 'entertainment grid' on the explosion of crime that's really % happening out there," suggests William S. Link, co-creator of Columbo and Murder, She Wrote as well as The Cosby Mysteries. "Today's crime rate is the highest in history. People want to see some sort of control, and you get that with fiction. On TV, the heavies are always caught...