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Besides, in four years, more viewers will be using digital video recorders to "timeshift," automatically downloading programs and watching them whenever they feel like it. As prime time becomes less and less relevant to these folks, NBC will need to be less slavish in its dedication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memo to NBC: How to Avoid a Greek Tragedy | 9/27/2000 | See Source »

...Krauthammer bewails "how far we've come in bending the notion of historical truth." One cannot help wondering why he did not mention the four most widely known examples of apologetically inspired fictionalization: the canonical Gospels. Krauthammer's examples of "brazen confabulators who make up their histories and the slavish academics who justify them" are simply following the examples of the ancient Evangelists and the modern Evangelicals. What goes around comes around. THOMAS W. HALL JR. Foster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 25, 1999 | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...Whether a practice or an object, I like to pick it up and see its history, its predecessors, its equivalents, and to question obsolescence as often as possible. It's not retro or "classic," it's not Luddite, it's not fetishization or nostalgia, nor noodling trivia-mongering, nor slavish creative anachronism...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Things Past | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...open and bold. Yet that very openness tells us how far we've come in bending the notion of historical truth. Morris' Morris could not have happened 10 or 20 years ago. He stands on the shoulders of giants: the brazen confabulators who make up their histories and the slavish academics who justify them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case of the Suspect Bios | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

GEORGE W. BUSH Texas massacre spotlights Guv's slavish devotion to N.R.A. Where's the "compassion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 27, 1999 | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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