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TV's rebuttal to Quayle will not end there. An upcoming episode of Hearts Afire, a new sitcom set in Washington, features a scene in which a dull-witted conservative Senator (George Gaynes) sees Murphy Brown on TV for the first time. What has Dan Quayle got against that "good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sitcom Politics | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

THE POWERS THAT BE (NBC, debuting March 7, 8:30 p.m. EST). Norman Lear tries for a comeback (after last summer's abysmal Sunday Dinner) with a sitcom about a dim-witted Senator. John Forsythe is amusing as a Reaganesque legislator, but the satire and supporting characters (imperious wife, nervous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 9, 1992 | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

Pearlman and Henderson constantly underrate our imaginations in this way--they seem to think that if we are not privy to the minutest detail of the mechanics of each interview, our dull-witted curiosity will be such that we cannot concentrate on the interviews themselves.

Author: By Kelly A. E. mason, | Title: Luminaries of Modern American Literature Give Women a Cultural Voice | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

Gangsters who blow out each other's brains may be performing a public service. Unless, that is, the public starts getting in the way. Such is the crisis facing law-enforcement officials in Brooklyn, N.Y., where the city's worst intrafamily gangland war in 30 years is now raging. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organized Crime: A Gang That Still Can't Shoot Straight | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

"He's very impressive man. He's very quick-witted," Ford Foundation Professor of International Studies Emeritus John D. Montgomery said of Ikeda after the meeting.

Author: By Philip P. Pan, | Title: Japanese Religious Leader Visits Rudenstine | 9/27/1991 | See Source »

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