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...bookstores; and, as if to reaffirm Mad's relevance, the current issues of two other magazines (Esquire and Texas Monthly) feature Alfred E. Neumanesque cover caricatures of would-be Presidents (George Bush and Ross Perot). Is there any American under 50 who did not as a youth experience Mad's liberating, irreverent rush? Without doubt a certain New York Daily News obituary editor did: WHAT? ME DEAD? was a headline -- tasteless, allusive, funny -- worthy of the man who allowed Mad to happen...
...looking back now because I have this misbelief about my life. Did I really get here?" he asks while munching on a cheese-and-pickle sandwich. He stares out at a view of rolling green hills that is a long way from the council housing of his Liverpool youth. "I hear myself telling stories to my kids, and sometimes I ask myself, 'Are you sure about this...
...Young viewers are better than old. The networks are increasingly looking for shows that appeal to the audience most valued by advertisers: young adults. Fox has spearheaded TV's youth movement with a string of hip young hits like The Simpsons, In Living Color and Beverly Hills, 90210. Joining them next fall will be such newcomers as Great Scott, about a daydreaming 15-year- old; The Class of '96, set in a small New England college; and The Heights, focusing on a fledgling rock band...
...other networks are catching youth fever. NBC is undergoing an almost complete face-lift, dumping several of its proven but aging hits (Matlock, In the Heat of the Night, Golden Girls) and repopulating its schedule with shows aimed at the magic 18-49 age group. Among the new entries: Here and Now, with former Cosby kid Malcolm-Jamal Warner as a graduate student working at a neighborhood youth center; Rhythm and Blues, about a white disk jockey at a black radio station; and The Round Table, featuring young law-enforcement professionals in Washington. "At eight o'clock across the board...
Connolly, along with Co-Captain Paul Faust, had the unenviable task this year of rebuilding a weakened lacrosse program: long on youth and energy, short on experience and confidence...