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...like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner) not only spun off the Boomerang channel of old cartoons for nostalgic adults (Get it? Boomerang?) but also inspired a heated was-Bugs-Bunny-racist debate last month when it excised anti-Japanese World War II-era shorts from a Bugs marathon. One-season wonders like My So-Called Life and Action have found second lives on MTV and FX. Video stores shelve Ally McBeal next to All of Me. Critics can debate endlessly whether we are in a Golden Age of TV, but this is definitely the golden, silver and brass...
...erotic The Dying Animal, published in May--Roth, 68, would win much support as America's best working novelist. Who else during the same period published so much of such consistently high quality? Even more remarkably, Roth has maintained this elevated standard for more than 40 years, a creative marathon that totals 20 books of fiction. Not all of these are masterpieces, but all are unfailingly ambitious, the products of a mature, demanding artistic conscience...
...Means members--Republican Representative Bill Thomas and Democrat Charles Rangel--were involved in late-hour haggling. Among the Senators, the conferees included Republicans Charles Grassley, Trent Lott and Don Nickles and Democrats Max Baucus, Tom Daschle, Jay Rockefeller and John Breaux. But for most of the final 48-hour marathon to complete the bill on the Thursday and Friday before Memorial Day, only Grassley, Thomas, Breaux and Baucus were actually in the room...
...decision to leave the administrative building came after a marathon negotiation session that included high-ranking AFL-CIO officials and top Harvard administrators, including General Counsel Anne Taylor, Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Paul S. Grogan and Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley...
...Bono developed an increased interest in political activism in 1985 when he performed in the high-profile "Live Aid" concert that raised about $200 million. The 16-hour music marathon, performed simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, was broadcast to more than 60 countries, and featured many of the top musicians of the day, with performances by Bob Dylan, Duran Duran, Phil Collins and reunions of both The Who and Led Zeppelin...