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Adding to SNL's challenge this fall is the presence, for the first time, of serious network competition. On Oct. 14th, Fox will launch Mad-TV, a sketch-comedy show based on Mad magazine. The one-hour program, which will air at 11 p.m. Eastern time (half an hour earlier than SNL) looks unpromising--crass, pointless skits, like one in which homeless people forage for breakfast food in Dumpsters, seem to be favored here too--but if it fails, Fox already has a potential backup in the works: a sketch-comedy hour being developed by Roseanne...
...small but growing group of scholars--evolutionary psychologists--are trying to do better. With a method less fanciful than Freud's, they're beginning to sketch the contours of the human mind as designed by natural selection. Some of them even anticipate the coming of a field called "mismatch theory," which would study maladies resulting from contrasts between the modern environment and the "ancestral environment," the one we were designed for. There's no shortage of such maladies to study. Rates of depression have been doubling in some industrial countries roughly every 10 years. Suicide is the second most common...
Carney is an "Etch-A-Sketch" politician. He begins every campaign from scratch and views each as a personal test to do the job better than it was done before. Consider just some of the New Hampshire moves Carney is helping oversee, work Dole's rivals can only envy...
...said. Then he gave the camera crews just five minutes to pack up and leave. Thus when Smith went on trial last week for the drowning murder of her two sons, the soft whirr of cameras was replaced by a far quainter sound--the scratches and squeaks of 10 sketch artists, plying their trade with color pencils and markers...
...announced that it would not accept any first-class mail in California that weighed more than three-fourths of a pound. Jitters were everywhere. A lawyer on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco was briefly interrogated by the fbi because he bore a passing resemblance to a composite sketch of Unabomber and had been "acting suspicious," which appeared to mean wearing sunglasses throughout the flight...