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There was always a whiff of faded romance in CBS's corporate culture--this is, after all, the network once known as the Tiffany of broadcasting. But nostalgia for the golden era of CBS has lately been supplemented by a sense that the network has been irreparably tarnished. Of all the bad days that Black Rock has endured (and is there another company whose internal soap operas are more frequently played out for the public?), these are undoubtedly the worst. In prime time, CBS's ratings have suffered an almost total collapse: its Nielsen average so far this fall...
...good obituary is always hard to write. Celebrating well-lived lives, marking the passage of exemplary men and women--this is a journalistic task with a whiff of the sacred about it. At TIME it is made even harder by the extreme concision of our Milestones section, where newly admitted angels (and devils) must dance on the head of a pin--100 words or less. That's why we're fortunate to have Michael Quinn, who specializes in animating those angels with a few deft strokes...
...caucuses, the Vice President's troops contrived a desperation strategy to provoke Dole to anger. "Make him blow, revive his 'hatchet man' image, make him seem too meanspirited to be President," recalls a top Bush aide who is now advising Dole. "That was the goal, and it worked." Every whiff of scandal, every scurrilous charge, every distortion of the Senator's record was lobbed at Dole with fury. The cumulative effect was decisive. After Bush won the New Hampshire primary, Dole angrily told Bush to "stop lying about my record" and was instantly toast...
Does the lure of a fine patisserie or the whiff of a Tuscan supper translate into greater book sales? They seem to. More than 980 million adult books were sold in 1993 (the last year for which figures are available), 64 million more than the previous year, and superstores report that their sales are growing 15% a year on average. "The great advantage to the superstores is simply that they buy more titles," says Roger Straus, president of the venerable publishing house Farrar Straus & Giroux. "More books in the best-seller echelon are being sold, and it would be unfair...
...stations; and The Extraordinary, another syndicated show carried on 114 stations. NBC's long-running Unsolved Mysteries, which generally deals with crimes and disappearances, is delving more frequently into the paranormal. Meanwhile, Fox's slick, high-rated The X-Files gives its fictional tales of the supernatural a whiff of authenticity by framing them as cases from a unit of the fbi that investigates paranormal phenomena...