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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will a simple system do the job? Just as in movies, most prime-time television shows will probably fall into the large middle ground--particularly the PG rating, which might well include everything from Boy Meets World to a racy episode of Seinfeld. In truth, the system seems motivated less by an urge for simplicity and more by a desire to avoid the red-flag V rating, which would probably scare off many advertisers--and, once the V chip comes into operation, erode the ratings of violent shows. "I think the industry has gone out of its way to develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RATING WARS | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...TRUTH ABOUT SANTA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 16, 1996 | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...that his Jerry is the whole show. Gooding's Tidwell can talk truth as well as trash. Funny and flamboyant as he is, he's a ferocious exponent of family values, stated with a lack of cant. He has a lot to teach Jerry about loyalty and its rewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ORDINARY SPORTS PEOPLE | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

This is a brilliant impersonation. Atwood has saturated herself in the social attitudes and intellectual currents of Canada a century and a half ago. She is scrupulous in not pretending to know the whole truth of Grace Marks. Who, the author notes, was at last freed from prison after 29 years. And who immigrated to New York State and there disappeared from sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: IN VERY CONFUSED BLOOD | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...naval vessel [NATION, Nov. 25] is not all that questionable in light of the National Transportation Safety Board's inconclusive explanations. It brings me to quote history's most famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes: "When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." KAM-WAN WONG Durham, England

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 16, 1996 | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

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