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Nothing makes a TV executive queasier than the word telethon. Jerry Lewis' efforts have done wondrous things, no doubt, for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, but as entertainment, they're must-flee TV. So when Simon Fuller, American Idol's creator and sovereign, told Fox executives he wanted to give one week of his prime-time, never-fail, hitmaking show over to fund raising--to make it a sort of telethon--he knew what they were thinking, and it was a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Just Don't Call It a Telethon | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...denizen of New York City's high-rises, he finds the whole subject of earthquakes discomforting as well as fascinating. But New York, he notes, has its advantages. "Manhattan has a lot of problems," Golden explains, "but very few faults." San Francisco Correspondent John Austin feels considerably queasier. Small wonder, considering that his talks with earthquake researchers and civic defense officials, and perusal of an Office of Emergency Preparedness study, form the basis of the story "The Day San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 1, 1975 | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...worth of other African fauna-instead of children running around their game preserve in Kenya. The world could well have been spared yet another rendering of the Born Free legend, but it must be admitted that NBC'S new series (Monday, 8 p.m. E.D.T.) at least avoids the queasier questions raised by Mrs. Adamson's elaborate efforts at surrogate motherhood. Elsa, the Adamsons' lioness, has turned into a kind of feline Lassie, roaming the remoter reaches of the green hills of Kenya, where she can weekly rescue or be rescued by the guest stars. As the Adamsons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints: Life on the Prairies | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...official myth may persist: man is the thinking animal. But whether the problem is Viet Nam or population growth, homosexuality or the existence of God, he seems to be turning queasier and queasier at the prospect of reviewing his thoughts "just once more." Thinking seems less and less likely to solve his problems. Worse, thinking seems to have become the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The New Cult of Madness: Thinking As a Bad Habit | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

...WHEN QUEASIER PSEUDOPHILOSOPHICAL SLUMGULLIONS ARE BREWED, YOUR WRITER WILL BREW THEM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

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