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...companies feel they don't get a fair shake in the media, so the History Channel's offer was enticing. The 18-month-old cable network, seen in 19.2 million homes, was gearing up The Spirit of Enterprise, a series of hourlong documentaries, each of which would recount the history of a different corporation--and be produced by the corporation itself. AT&T, DuPont and General Motors were among those who had signed on; the first show, on Boeing, was already nearing completion. But last week, after the series was publicized and questions were raised about how objective these "histories...
Duchovny's role is limited--and, by the way, he never takes his clothes off--but his character Jake is an archetype for the men in all these series. He appears in the beginning of each episode to read letters from women who have written to recount erotic tales; years ago, you see, Jake's fiance killed herself after a torturous affair with another man, leaving Jake with no choice but to spend the rest of his life soliciting dirty letters in an effort to unravel the female mind. The stories contained in his correspondence form the plot of each...
...decades after World War II, in the process drawing a vivid portrait of idealists who believed that "a journalist should be the champion of the underdog," but who were also "intensely ambitious young men who yearned for admission to [the best] clubs and salons..." Cloud and Olson not only recount the broken friendships and broken illusions that saddened the later years of Murrow's boys, they also lay down a disturbing, if not completely convincing, indictment of commercial broadcasting for abandoning the legacy of Murrow and Company in a relentless pursuit of corporate profit...
...rehashing of evils better forgotten. Those who acknowledge that the rebel flag is a detestable symbol but take umbrage when its legacy is discussed seem to prefer to wallow in escapism and denial. And those who still revere this flag have even less grounds to complain when I graphically recount the barbarism associated with it. If the South, and Georgia in particular, wishes to cling to the Confederate flag, then its heritage of shame cannot be glossed over...
...solitary figure silhouetted against a reddish-orange dawn marks the beginning of Tug Yourgrau's musical, "The Song of Jacob Zulu." The play, which opened on Broadway in 1993, is an honest attempt to recount the tragedies of a South Africa under the baleful spell of apartheid. Inspired by the murder trial of Jacob Zulu in 1985, the play recounts the violence and pressures of a society fractured by racism...