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Well, no one is about to be thrown into TV jail, but a new batch of shows is playing ever faster and looser with the line that separates fact and fiction. These specimens of "reality TV" come in two varieties: those that try to fashion drama out of real life and those that try to make drama look like real life. As the real and the fake get harder to tell apart, ethical and aesthetic questions get trickier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Fact Vs. Fiction on Reality TV | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

Other teams, though, have looser schedules. The women's hockey team makes frequent excursions to houses of Crimson players...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Life on the Road | 2/27/1988 | See Source »

...that HSA is back in the black, students, alumni and Harvard officials associated with HSA are calling for a looser atmosphere in which there will be more avenues open to student entrepreneurialism...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Business Training Ground or Just Another Job? | 2/10/1988 | See Source »

...Facing a looser press, Barros scored nine points--including an amazing 360-degree spin-in-the-air jumpshot that few watchers will forget--to lead a 23-10 Eagle scoring run to close out the half with...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: B.C. Blasts M. Cagers, 121-80 | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...John Ritter as a San Francisco cop, is essentially a Hill Street Blues combination of crime-show action, broad comedy and "sensitive" character drama, slickly done but a bit overripe for its half-hour length. The Slap Maxwell Story, with Dabney Coleman as an oafish sportswriter, opts for a looser structure and more melancholy tone. Slap is a blustering loser who is constantly getting socked in the face, pushed around by his boss and dumped on by women; when his estranged son shows up for a visit, the reluctant dad has to poll co-workers for possible topics of conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Not Playing It for Laughs | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

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