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...Killing in a Small Town (CBS). A repressed Texas schoolteacher (Barbara Hershey, in a shattering performance) pays a visit to her neighbor, who is later found hacked to death with an ax. This disturbing TV movie took the overworked true-crime genre and infused it with a sense of spiritual desolation...
Least-Sparkling Water It wasn't Perrier's year. First, lab tests found traces of benzene, a potential carcinogen, in samples of the green-bottled bubbly. Then the French government forced Perrier to drop the words naturally carbonated from its European labels. ("Naturally" had earlier been deemed a no-no in the U.S.) Evian has now supplanted Perrier as America's top-selling imported bottled water...
Most Endangered Species Cigarette smokers found themselves all but squeezed out of socially respectable circles. More restaurants quarantined smokers to tiny sections. Businesses ordered that cigarettes be left at home. Smoking was banned on virtually all domestic airline flights and on interstate buses. And the risks of secondhand fumes puffed the anti-smoking chorus to an implacable roar...
Most Out-of-Tune Experiment Steven Bochco's musical series Cop Rock, with soft-shoe gumshoes and gospel jubilation in the jury box, was found guilty of being off key and sentenced to oblivion. So much for the networks' new spirit of innovation...
...Fair in Love and Show Biz Andrew Lloyd Webber brought Aspects of Love to Broadway in more ways than one. Critics found the hit musical's score overwrought and the plot unlikely. In real life, the composer highlighted one of love's least admirable aspects when he announced a separation from wife Sarah Brightman and helpfully included the name of his mistress in the press release...