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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...KEEP ROOTING FOR AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE. The PBS series is television's only regular outlet for serious, original works of American drama. Too often, however, what you get is windy trifles like Mrs. Cage. Adapted from a one-act play by Nancy Barr, it stars Anne Bancroft as a housewife who, without apparent reason, shoots a woman in a supermarket parking lot following a violent robbery, then confesses the crime to a police lieutenant, played by Hector Elizondo. The drama consists almost entirely of a long, rambling, needlessly elusive dialogue in which the woman's motive is gradually revealed. Suffice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: May 18, 1992 | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

...native American skepticism of elites." He singles out for praise modern-day community organizers, the heirs of Saul Alinsky, fighting for power in the old-fashioned face-to-face style of urban political machines. His moral: "The nation is alive with positive, creative political energies" that never find an outlet in national elections. Yet Greider is too much the realist (covering 20 years of quixotic presidential campaigns inevitably dampens one's dreams) to map out much of a battle plan for John and Jane Doe to regain control of the levers of national power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dirge for American Democracy | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...BRADLEY'S ONLY VISIBLY SHREWD MOVE DURING THE RODNEY KING RIOTS was a request for an hour of crisis counterprogramming. Last Thursday he encouraged Channel 4, the NBC-owned and -operated Los Angeles outlet, to air The Cosby Show's farewell broadcast as originally scheduled. Maybe the mayor was just another fan of Bill Cosby's who did not want to be denied closure. Maybe he thought the Cos would calm the populace. Maybe he wanted to give the anchors a chance to repair their hairdos. Or maybe he just wanted to make at least one pair of them shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How TV Failed to Get the Real Picture | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

Last week store owners in the prosperous Koreatown district, five miles north of the initial flash point, were ready for action. In the absence of effective police protection, the merchants resorted to vigilante tactics. At a large mall featuring a food outlet, a pharmacy and a liquor store with Korean- language signs, men with pump shotguns and high-powered pistols defended their businesses. A barricade of shopping carts was arranged in the parking lot, which was patrolled by armed Koreans in a four-wheel vehicle. As a pair of looters approached the mall, the guards fired 12-gauge rounds into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: L.A. Lawless | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

Several students described the gathering as an emotional outlet. the end of the 40 minute event , many students and faculty were in tears and were hugging each other...

Author: By Godffrey S. Williams, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Students Mourn Riot Victims | 5/8/1992 | See Source »

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