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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...grown men smashing heads and dragging each other to the ground. No, it's not the Reform party - it's Monday Night Football! The Alphabet Network has decided to go with two preseason games rather than the traditional prime-time coverage of democracy's twin infomercials, consigning the political action to halftime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al 'n' Dubya Shows Are Too Boring for Prime Time | 6/21/2000 | See Source »

Strauss hands the narrating chores to Eng, the twin on the right-hand side of the pair, who gradually emerges as a convincingly persuasive and heroic presence--intelligent (he reads Shakespeare while Chang sleeps, sometimes resting the book on his brother's forehead) and refreshingly matter-of-fact about his preposterous physical fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doubly Good | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...married couples moved into the Hotel Brunswick to find that their post-war life would begin in a one-bedroom apartment with no kitchen and a twin...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Class of 1950 | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...married couples moved into the Hotel Brunswick to find that their post-war life would begin in a one-bedroom apartment with no kitchen and a twin...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Guard of the Ivory Tower | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...most ingenious is The League of Gentlemen, a genre-defying black comedy that combines the sketch humor of Python with the small-town horror of Twin Peaks. Set in the fictional English hamlet Royston Vasey, it intertwines the stories of more than 60 characters, male and female--all played by three men--from the abusive counselor at the town unemployment center ("I know they've put monkeys in space, but do you really think they'll have one driving a fire engine?") to the reactionary proprietor couple of a local shop (named the Local Shop), who plot to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Anarchy from the U.K. | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

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