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...printed in the November premiere issue are titled How to Become a Recording Mogul; American and Disaffected at Oxford; Mountain Biking and Me (sponsored by Polo Sport); and A History Lesson with the Spin Doctors' Lead. The heart of the magazine is a Fortune take-off that attempts to portray America's Most Powerful 20-Somethings. That Julia Roberts qualifies for the list is symbolic of the standards. But even more significant is the shallowness of the portraits, including quotations lifted from the interviews of other magazines...
...easy to be skeptical of someone who privately admitted to lobbyists that part of his campaign strategy was to portray Clinton Democrats as proponents of Stalinist measures. Yet Gingrich claims that he really wants nothing more than to work with the President--as long as the latter is willing to work with him to cut welfare, property taxes, and institute school prayer. And if the President doesn't? "I prefer to believe," Gingrich darkly informed The New York Times, "(that) this President, who is clearly quite smart, is quite capable of thinking clearly about a message sent by the American...
John Updike's stories portray duffers-in-waiting...
...evil, imagery of death and dark forces bear heavily on the set and the plot as well. Emma sees Arthur in a dream as the devil with horns and cloven feet. But Todd emerges the more likely contender, with an irrepressibly destructive influence and inhuman discourse which portray him as some eternal diabolic force. Enigmatically, he informs his family, "I think I died long ago... I'll be here long after you're gone..." while erecting the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex he mysteriously digs up in the back yard of the family mansion. The skeleton becomes a symbol...
...rhythmic instinct to slow down in television," says Crichton. "But our show had to go as fast as the real thing. We got rid of the pauses, those actors' moments, the hanging looks that mean nothing. Medical shows have been at the Marcus Welby pace: meet a patient, portray the disease of the week and finish with some heart-wrenching solution. Here we just rip people...