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...Mister Ed. But even middling sitcoms like The Patty Duke Show are more effortlessly engaging than most of the nervous joke machines that pass for comedies today. Good ones like The Dick Van Dyke Show remind us that the trivial plot lines of old domestic comedies were often a mask for shrewd satire of suburban neuroses. The best ones, like I Love Lucy, which invented the vocabulary for the modern sitcom, have the formal perfection and infinite repeatability of great pop music...
...nearly 70 hours of deliberations over nine days, jurors could not unanimously agree that videos like Animal Tapes 1-6, which depicts bestiality, and Dr. Bizzaro, a film that includes incest scenes, were obscene. Sturman, a cleanliness freak who attended the trial in a surgical mask, claims he is the subject of a vendetta by prosecutors and the IRS, which previously seized his Rolls-Royce as part payment for the more than $15 million he owed in penalties stemming from a 1989 tax-evasion conviction...
...from Michigan: Sherry Miller, 43, had multiple sclerosis, and Marjorie Wantz, 58, suffered from a painful pelvic disease. While her husband watched, Wantz received a lethal injection from a device similar to the one Adkins used. Miller, attended by her best friend, suffocated on carbon monoxide breathed through a mask. Neither one was a patient of Kevorkian's, and neither was terminally ill. The doctor was present throughout, said his lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger. "He provided the expertise. He provided the equipment...
Chick Corea Elektric Band--celebrates the release of its new CD "Beneath the Mask." Tickets are $22.50 and $24.50. Call 876-7777. At the Berklee Performance Center on Sunday...
...last week's release of 60 more hours of White House tapes came as a timely reminder that Nixon is not simply an author and global analyst but an unindicted co-conspirator who is lucky to have escaped prison. Listen to any random conversation, on any day, and the mask of respectable elder statesman melts away to reveal a deceitful, lowbrow, vindictive character, dangerously armed with the full power of the IRS, FBI and CIA, and all too willing to use it. Audit his enemies, he orders. "We have to do it artfully so that we don't create...