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...health-care seminar in your home or office featuring Bill Gradison, president of the Health Insurance Association of America, and Ira Magaziner, White House health-care expert. Moderator: Carole Simpson of ABC News...
...York Times, Jones until last Saturday rated a few paragraphs in stories deep inside the paper; it also printed a column by William Safire chiding other journalists for taking her seriously. The Los Angeles Times, by contrast, unhesitatingly reported Jones' charges in February. Of the TV networks, ABC ran a brief and oblique mention on an evening newscast in February, but NBC, CNN and CBS held off until last week, and even then mostly gave the story short shrift. TIME briefly mentioned the case in a two-page story on Clinton haters in the April 11 issue, while last week...
...elders ration food supplies; some priests are presiding over congregations 1,000 strong. For those who have been witness to mayhem throughout the past four years of civil war, there were even words of relief. Compared with the life he had left behind, one refugee told a reporter from ABC, "here we are tasting the good life." At least here, he explained, no one was being killed...
Television, however, handles King clumsily. ABC's four-hour version of It (childhood friends battle nameless evil, personified by Tim Curry as a malevolent clown) was bloated and out of control, while The Tommyknockers (more nameless evil, this time chasing Jimmy Smits) seemed derivative and halfhearted. Still, both were big hits in the ratings. At a time when TV is awash in docudramas and uplifting moral tales, King's dark, fanciful (though still moralistic) stories seem liberating...
...Stand, airing on ABC next week, is the biggest TV serving of King yet. Based on his 800-page 1978 novel (to which the author restored 400 previously cut pages in 1990), it spans four nights and eight hours and portrays nothing less than the end of the world as we know it. King's horrors, as usual, are firmly rooted in the everyday. The opening scene sets the tone. At a government lab nestled in a quiet California desert community, a security guard gets a panicked alarm: the containment of a deadly experimental virus has been breached. Instead...