Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assignment to put together an actual printed magazine in three hours; my group had to photograph, report and write a story about the TIME art department. My reporting team, ages 9 and 10, was shockingly smart, culturally aware, energetic and uninhibited. By this I mean that when we went to interview a page designer about her job, the girls, poised for a lucrative future in celebrity journalism, immediately asked the following questions: "Are you married? Do you have a boyfriend? Are you engaged? Are you dating? Do you like Joel?" These, oddly enough, are the same questions I ask when...
...back with It's like, you know..., which differs only in that it explores West Coast rather than East Coast inanities (car chases, cell phones and celebrities instead of parking places, subways and Chinese restaurants). "You flip the channels, and everything looks the same," says Thomas Schlamme, who went from directing the critically acclaimed Larry Sanders Show to executive-producing Sports Night. "You get the setup on one channel and the punch line on another." Viewers aren't laughing. Of the 36 prime-time shows that debuted last fall, at least 21 won't be around next September...
...pulled an episode of Promised Land because of a plot about a shooting in front of a Denver school. The WB has postponed a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode with a schoolyard-massacre motif. Movie-studio honchos, who furiously resist labeling some serious adult films FOR ADULTS ONLY, went mum last week when asked to comment on any connection between violent movies and violent teen behavior. That leaves us to explain things...
...massacre in Colorado did raise a serious issue, yet again: gun control. Newspapers all over the world published sanctimonious editorials about the "American gun culture." The National Rifle Association went on sensitivity alert; in a rare moment of self-effacement it canceled the festive public events and gun show planned around its annual meeting, but not the meeting itself, which by coincidence is scheduled for this week in Denver...
...wrong. When scientists measured exactly how much eggs raise cholesterol levels in the blood, they found the increase was small. (One exception is the folks whom doctors call responders, who churn out cholesterol when they eat eggs.) Researchers from Harvard University and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston went a step further in the study released last week and looked at actual egg consumption among 120,000 nurses and other health professionals with normal cholesterol levels. After eliminating the "bacon effect," the researchers found no link between eggs and heart disease or stroke. The major exception: folks with diabetes...