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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is hardly a new complaint. TV critics earn their spurs by lamenting the lack of adventurous fare on network TV. Often the plea reflects a petulant idealism. One cannot expect weekly artistic innovations on a medium that churns out thousands of hours of entertainment each year. The stress on new and different, moreover, can lead to the hyping of bogus breakthroughs. Fox's new sitcom True Colors, for example, is the first to focus on a racially mixed family, while CBS's E.A.R.T.H. Force pits a team of scientist-crime fighters against a new foe: environmental villains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Novelty Is Only Skin Deep | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

After a phenomenal streak in which Suzanne Jones attained All-American status in five of six seasons in cross-country and winter and spring track, her taxing athletic schedule appears to have taken its toll. The senior will miss most of the cross-country season with a stress fracture...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Injury to Jones Hurts W. Thinclads | 9/14/1990 | See Source »

After a phenomenal streak in which Suzanne Jones attained All-American status in five of six seasons in cross-country and winter and spring track, her taxing athletic schedule appears to have taken its toll. The senior will miss most of the cross-country season with a stress fracture...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Injury to Jones Hurts W. Thinclads | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

After a phenomenal streak in which Suzanne Jones attained All-American status in five of six seasons in cross-country and winter and spring track, her taxing athletic schedule appears to have taken its toll. The senior will miss most of the cross-country season with a stress fracture...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Injury to Jones Hurts W. Thinclads | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...recession. There is not much disagreement on that among Bush partisans. Richard Lesher, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, views the White House from his office window and allows that "recession is all around us already." There is a severe credit crunch, the banking system is in stress, real estate and durable goods are deeply depressed. "Much rides on the outcome of the Middle East," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: The Presidency: Bush's Balancing Act | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

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