Word: relaxers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SATIRE ON TELEVISION, CONTRARY to George S. Kaufman's famous dictum, is what opens on Saturday night. After a week of slogging through the sitcom swamp, by the weekend TV seems increasingly ready to kick back, relax and make snide fun of itself. Saturday Night Live is still flourishing after 17 years on the air, while In Living Color is a highly rated fixture on Fox's Sunday-night schedule. Two more sketch-comedy shows have, with little fanfare, sneaked onto the Fox schedule this fall. One, The Edge, is a fitfully amusing but rather juvenile SNL knock-off that...
...standing on the banks of theCharles tomorrow wondering why these students,coaches and full-time athletes choose to rowrather than relax on an October Sunday afternoon,just remember: it's fun. And competitive--on anindividual level...
...really don't get to relax," he says. "Thepartying is actually kind of annoying, because I'mtrying to sleep before my race...
...more bit of advice: Relax. However you spend Millennium Eve, you can't really go wrong. After all, humankind has been down this path only once before -- and it's not likely anyone did anything so memorable the first time round. So to recap: You can sit home pondering new names for 20th Century Fox and making earnest millennium resolutions. Or you can plan early, play hard and party late. Whatever you decide, have a nice millennium...
...some cases, a brief course of tranquilizers is prescribed, although if these are used too frequently, their effectiveness wears off. Tranquilizers are preferable to sleeping pills, Catlin says, because they relax rather than sedate the patient...