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...reason is no mystery: the networks have far more competition than they once had. Not only has Fox muscled in on the traditional Big Three, but two smaller networks, UPN and the WB, are also vying for viewers. So are dozens of increasingly potent cable channels. Cable made more inroads this summer, when the networks slipped into their usual rerun torpor. The cable industry delights in pointing out that for the first time ever, in the 2 1/2-month period from July through mid-September, the prime-time audience for all basic-cable networks combined exactly matched that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: IS ANYONE WATCHING? | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...hard to say what went wrong. Possibly the director, Agnieszka Holland, was simply overwhelmed by these very potent performers, unable to discipline their work. Possibly the fact that English is her second language (she is Polish and the creator of the very powerful Europa Europa) rendered her impervious to, or nervous about, Jamesian nuance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MISPLACED AFFECTIONS | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...potent example is the image of a moonlike abandoned space station which was sent into orbit before the war and whose mission humankind can no longer afford to effect. Stranded and starving to death, these astronauts become for Turnbull a modern Icarus, or maybe even the hapless architects of a new Tower of Babel. Looking into the sky, those on earth see palpable evidence of the waning power of man. These ideas are very fruitfully explored and seem the continuation of certain aspects of Brazil, and even Too Far To Go, though on a very different scale...

Author: By Adriane N. Giebel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Death, Decay, Decline | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

BROCCOLI SPROUTS Potent anticarcinogens. But can you get them fried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 29, 1997 | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...Crimson players are packing their bags-as well as the Ivy League's most potent running game after Week One-and heading out to the holy city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. There they will face one of the Patriot League's better teams, the Lehigh Engineers, in a contest that may feature some fireworks...

Author: By Lev F. Gerlovin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Football Sets for Lehigh | 9/26/1997 | See Source »

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