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...think people who read a magazine have no idea how much work goes into it." Edwards brings an interesting perspective to our halls, since she filled an internship at ABC-TV News last summer. She's greatly enjoyed her colleagues at both shops, but finds she prefers the print medium to video. "It's just more satisfying. I love words, and with only three minutes there's not much you can say." Sounds right...
...places, Love, Love, and Love recalls Bernhard's performance style, and one almost bears her distinctive vocal intonation--equal parts sarcasm and elegy behind the words. While this proves that Bernhard is sometimes capable of bringing her live energy to the page, it also suggests that her most effective medium is still performance. Love, Love and Love, like the elusive object it's named for, is occasionally enchanting but too often annoying...
...Home shopping, the ultimate in couch-potato marketing, seemed, at its cable- TV debut a decade ago, to be the natural successor to the shopping mall. But years of selling such schlock as silver bracelets and cubic-zirconia rings, plus a series of scandals, mired the medium at the low end of the retail business, even as it grew to gross about $2.2 billion a year. Recently, though, home shopping has spiffed up its image, thanks in part to media mogul Barry Diller. Since joining QVC as chairman six months ago, Diller has buffed the industry's reputation by luring...
...light, users could more easily overlook the potential for the abuse of the network. The illusion of safety promoted intense on-line intimacy -- all behind the safety of a computer screen. Says Preston Stern, an ally of Mr. X, "The incident exposed in a very immediate way how the medium facilitates deception -- emotional manipulation because of the absence of physical cues. It's easy to keep secrets when you're on-line...
...medium so concerned with "family values," TV has been treating the family pretty badly of late. With rare exceptions (notably ABC's Roseanne), sitcom clans are stitched together with baling wire and bad jokes. Serious family dramas (Family, A Year in the Life) have all but disappeared from prime time, and the few recent offerings have been too distracted by other matters -- skewering small-town life in Picket Fences; cheerleading for the rights of autistic children in Life Goes On -- to pay much attention to the way families really interrelate. In this context, Laurel Avenue, an HBO mini-series airing...