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...answers go to the heart of the tidal change that is transforming network television. Old verities, like the Nielsen ratings, are no longer holy writ. Shows that a few years ago would have been canceled are today being acclaimed as hits. Programmers who once juggled schedules at the drop of a Nielsen decimal point are now making those moves warily. And everybody is wondering whether television's mass audience -- those huge blocs of viewers who used to assemble in front of the set for shows like I Love Lucy and All in the Family and Roots -- has dispersed for good...
...question of law, there wouldn't be the anguish involved," said Roemer, lapsing into near biblical cadences even as he glanced at his watch to see if was time to pick up his nine-year-old son Dakota and take him to baseball practice. "The law having been writ, a human stands under the tree. The courts having ruled, I stand with him. I have to make a decision...
...normally fidgety students were riveted when Moscow history teacher Andrei Isayev turned the tables on the Russian Revolution. Isayev first took down all the pictures of Lenin in his tenth-grade classroom. Then he told his students that the 1917 Revolution, which had been taught for decades as holy writ, was not so glorious as their government-issued textbooks had portrayed it. The students proved to be fast learners. "Lenin was a dark personality," one of Isayev's pupils says, when a Western visitor asks him about the founder of the modern Soviet state. He made "big mistakes" and caused...
Fandom is akin to love. When one partner in this transaction turns brazenly mercenary, something less savory develops. Baseball, as its devotees never tire of arguing, is America, writ small but indelibly on green grass between white lines. When the current tawdry spectacle moves out of hotel rooms and onto diamonds, the breakthrough should prompt not only cheers but also some sadness that the springtime rite of innocence and rejuvenation has been sullied by avarice and bad blood...
...influenced by the vast apocalyptic paintings of John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath and The Last Judgement, shown in New York soon after they were painted in the 1850s. Church wanted to stun and to instruct, to absorb the "Holy Book" of nature along with the Holy Writ of John Ruskin's writings...