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Still dewy of eye, Morris looks back on "his" Harper's as a vanguard "in mirroring and interpreting and shaping the configurations of the nation." A calmer view is that the magazine scored some exceptional coups, like Seymour Hersh's expose of My Lai and Norman Mailer's "The Prisoner of Sex." But it also ran too many indulgently edited articles that dribbled on until reeled the mind. The author has chosen to look back on the '60s with a naif's sense of primitive awe, with the result that those laundry lists of the Big Feet he chatted...
...outfitted with motion-sensitive floodlights, video monitors, infrared alarms and a % spiked fence topped with razor wire. A metal cage surrounds the patio. Bars adorn every window. A Doberman pinscher guards the yard. And a security guard patrols the driveway. "The wrong people are behind bars," says Anne Seymour of the National Victim Center. "People are putting themselves behind bars because we as a nation have failed to put the right people behind bars...
Among the highlights of the workshop was a discussion with Seymour Cassel. In his energetic, irreverent manner, Cassel, who most recently appeared in "Indecent Proposal" (1993), spoke about acting, film, his experiences working with director John Cassavetes and his starring role in Rockwell's new film...
...Those shows, however, look like MTV next to Dr. Quinn. Jane Seymour, queen of the network mini-series, stars as the graduate of an Eastern women's medical college who answers an ad and moves west to practice in Colorado Springs in the 1860s. The residents are surprised and dismayed to discover that their new doctor is a woman (her name, unhelpfully, is Michaela), but she quickly proves her skills. In the meantime, she takes over the care of three youngsters whose mother has died of a rattlesnake bite. "After my real ma went to heaven, Dr. Mike...
...fights with a bank officer who won't lend her money because she's a single woman. Indians in Dr. Quinn are not hostile, just misunderstood; a hawker of phony patent medicines turns out to be a surgeon who grew disillusioned after witnessing battlefield carnage during the Civil War. Seymour, as the town's doctor, psychologist, police force and environmental chemist rolled into one, is the biggest anachronism of all. But a right purty...