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...girl. One whimsical fantasy per episode, please. The show's patronizing attitude toward small towners is more subtle but just as annoying. One episode makes snide fun of the tavern owner's 19-year-old girlfriend, who gets a satellite dish and becomes addicted to tacky TV fare like Wheel of Fortune and the Home Shopping Network. God forbid somebody in a remote Alaskan town should actually pass the time watching TV. What would Voltaire think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Little Too Flaky in Alaska | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

LITE 'N UP. Just in time for the bikini season comes a "diet survival" board game that pits players against the spinning "wheel of willpower." Beware! You may wallow indefinitely in Restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games People Play | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...have slowed the spread of Saturn dealers, limiting sales to just 12,000 vehicles. Still, Saturn added a second shift last week, and plans to have 106 showrooms open nationwide by the end of the month. Many shoppers seem pleased by what they have seen of the front-wheel-drive compact. Says Michael Russell, 28, an Atlanta sales-display manager, who was on the verge of buying a Saturn last week: "It's the most car for the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit's Big Three Are Seeing Red | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

Critiques dominated the two-day Kremlin meeting of the Central Committee. Ivan Polozkov, head of the Russian republic's Communist Party, told Gorbachev, "I cannot understand how, after taking on such a large and responsible affair as perestroika, you have let the steering wheel slip from your hands." Admiral Gennadi Khvatov, commander of the Pacific fleet, intoned the old slogan, "The fatherland is in danger." Gorbachev, tired of the harangues, stormed to the rostrum and announced he would resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Why Are These Men Smiling? | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

...finest wines do not age nearly as well as successful television shows. Reruns of American TV hits, along with syndicated sensations like Wheel of Fortune, gross close to $6 billion a year worldwide. That huge market has long been the virtually exclusive preserve not of the networks but of the Hollywood studios that create the shows. The Federal Communications Commission decreed in 1970 that ABC, CBS and NBC, then the largest buyers of programs by far, could not also be major sellers. But more recently, facing profit-sapping competition from cable TV and independent stations, the Big Three lobbied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDIA: Those Oldies Are Goldies | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

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