Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blame, the oversupply of reruns and chat on the cable dial has become oppressive, the attempts to breathe new life into them almost laughably desperate. America's Talking will offer such quirky variants on the talk-show form as Am I Nuts? (psychologists offer advice to people facing everyday stress) and Pork (its single topic: government waste) On ESPN2, the hotshot hosts can be abrasive enough to provoke violence (New Orleans Saints quarterback Jim Everett, taunted by interviewer Jim Rome this spring, overturned a table and pounced...
Increasingly, the theme is homegrown, back-to-basics TV. Spurred by the need to look different and to do it cheaply, new channels proudly let the seams show -- a throwback to the earliest days of TV -- and stress spontaneity and viewer participation -- an attempt to achieve the intimacy of talk radio. Anne Sweeney, chairman of fX, says her channel's goal is to create "a national network based on a local feel." America's Talking will use interactive | technology to get viewers involved. "This is a place where Americans can come, pull up a chair, pour a cup of coffee...
...kept talking by phone to negotiator Pete Weireter about his successes and disappointments, about his demands. Your children need you, Weireter said, be cool, just relax. O.J. wanted to talk to his mother, who had been checked into a San Francisco hospital for stress. Pete said he could once he was inside. Call her; use the bathroom; get something to drink. O.J. wanted to be able to walk into his house. The cops promised not to tackle him. He wanted...
...regional coordinators are busy forming a Minnesota chapter of the Christian Coalition, even the hard-line Quist is careful to keep his distance. "I have never been in sympathy with Pat Robertson," he insists. To broaden his moral-issues agenda and build bridges to economic conservatives, he prefers to stress his ideas for a middle-class...
...stress of unemployment, which runs as high as 40% in some East European areas, is one cause for rising death rates in the middle years. And even those lucky enough to be employed are often receiving inflation-slashed salaries or have been forced to take jobs far below their level of qualification. "The middle aged are particularly hard hit," says Maaz. "This happens at a time / when their life experience and competence should be most valued. But because that experience comes from the earlier ((communist)) period, it is devalued." The resulting life crisis, he says, manifests itself in everything from...