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...networks get themselves into such a mess? To a great extent, they are victims of a changing TV universe. "The networks are not doing anything wrong," says Ted Turner, the veteran network basher who tried to take over CBS three years ago. "It's like AM radio. They weren't doing anything wrong either, but FM radio was better." Years of colossal audiences and soaring ad revenues, however, bred complacency. "The networks closed their eyes to reality," says Ralph Baruch, former president of Viacom International and now a senior fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies. "They didn...
...pursuing Hope, Marion is, of course, also seeking self-knowledge. For this woman is her obverse double, embracing the mess and confusion Marion has spent her life avoiding. We never learn what troubles Hope. She is more device than character. But the chase diverts Marion still further from her habitual paths, opening her to chance encounters with figures from her past, who in turn trigger memories and fantasies that make her see how she has ducked life's embrace. She has turned a best friend into a bitterly disappointed acquaintance; pregnancy into abortion; what might have been a passionate, lifesaving...
While reporters at the Times are eagerly snapping up early copies of Fit to Print, Rosenthal, who has received a six-figure advance to write his memoirs, says he has not read it: "From what I can tell, it's like walking into a mess in the street. You step in it; you try to wipe it from your foot." Ironically, some of the best material in the book comes from Rosenthal, who at first refused to talk to Goulden but ultimately spent 20 hours with the author. "If you call Abe Rosenthal anything," he told a mystified Goulden...
...purpose of housing a freshman dining hall and student groups. The administration still must formalize the plans and solicit funding for the project. If Harvard is planning a bona fide student center, the University deserves accolades. But if the administration only intends to replace the Freshman Union--a mess hall, with underutilized and meager social facilities--that would be a distortion of what undergraduates want from a student center...
...fact that there is a trash problem beleaguering the Yard, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, comes as news to us. And if there is a mess, are the student publications at fault? Although most hallways are adorned every Thursday and Friday with unread and unwished-for Independents, it is hard to believe that newspapers and periodicals are truly responsible...