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That's a legitimate concern, and thecounter-balance to burnout is the suddenly castinto doubt running game. Senior Nick Isaacson isthe lone returner who has a carry to his name (10carries, 35 yards...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Restic's Last Season: Wishing on a Star | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...year-old adolescent, Chuck Norstadt (Nick Stahl), who helps him reconcile his two selves. He's a kid so screwed up that he actually wants to go to military school. You can't really blame him though, since his mother (Margaret Whitton, in a good performance) has an unfortunate propensity for marrying inappropriate men on what seems to be an almost annual basis. Unable to deal with a family that keeps extending itself in such a careless way, Chuck is a little bit bifurcated himself, falling into dreamy spells to escape the hubbub. Lacking a reliable father figure, he tells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call in The Smarm Police! | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

...suspicious sex: so a certain amount of husbandly experience -- as well as a long-established convention of popular culture -- teaches us. For decades Blondie has been routing Dagwood out of bed to investigate strange noises downstairs. And Nora Charles always sniffed out foul play ahead of blithe Nick, despite the fact that he was the professional detective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Funny Isn't Enough | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

Rerun status: Nick at Nite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nick At Nite: The Movie | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

Repeatedly over the 160 years since Nick's family first tilled the land, the river had reached out to destroy the crops. But each time, the family had returned to replant and prosper. This was different. The river, recalls Crystal, "was like something possessed." For weeks now, the Mississippi has occupied their five-bedroom home, its undercurrents "shaking the house apart, ripping away the studs from the siding and Sheetrock," as Nick describes it. Unlike past flash floods, which were over in days, the waters may not recede for four months, and the family may not be able to replant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Broken Heartland | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

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