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...DENNIS MILLER SHOW (syndicated, weeknights). The former Saturday Night Live newscaster has made a surprisingly smooth transition to the talk-show couch. Miller's esoteric references (from Stephen Sondheim to Herman Melville) are sometimes too self-conscious, but he's hip, intelligent and -- a rarity on TV -- authentically curious...
...Yorker who loves Georgia O'Keefe paintings. Victor (Stephan Lucano) is an older man who models for Audrey's sketches. The object/objectifier relationship is a familiar theme to the audience by the time these two come on stage, but the exact connection between the two couples is curious and tenuous until the very end, where everything is tied together perhaps too well...
...curious that after all these years ahead of the pack, Steinem appears surprised and a bit disquieted by the controversy her book has engendered. In one breath she talks about rewriting the introduction to clarify the book's thesis and convert her critics, and in the next she refuses to see herself as a leader. "I wrote out of my personal and political reality and never thought it would have this impact," she admits readily. Breaking down hierarchies has long been her mission, and at 57, she is clearly not about to create a new one. "The point...
...manager at the Pro says he takes seriously his legal obligation to confiscate I.D.s he thinks are fake. As proof, he'll show the curious a shoebox-sized tin can filled three quarters to the top with fake I.D.s...
...kids, then a middle-size income was shrinking to the level of an inadequate pittance. While the price of housing and tuition went shooting through the roof, the median household income remained stuck where it has been ever since the late '70s, at about $30,000 a year. The curious result being that if you want to be middle class in the old-fashioned suburban sense, you need to be pretty near rich...