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According to Taylor's postmortem, TEC was caught in the crossfire between HBO, owned by Time Inc., with its 11 million subscribers, and Viacom International Inc.'s Showtime, with 4 million. Taylor predicted a rebirth for TEC in another form, however. He is planning to launch a scaled-down, advertiser-supported channel under the same name late this spring. It will seek a broader audience with fare including Hollywood classics and short-lived TV series from seasons past. RCA and RCI have not decided whether to back the new venture. It would be a gamble...
...more serious fashion, Miller discusses the involuntary actions of the gastrointestinal tract, re-creates classic medical experiments, such as William Harvey's showing that blood flows in only one direction in a vein, and assists at an autopsy (we see far more of a postmortem than is ever shown on Quincy). The series can be alternately informative (Roman society frowned on scientific dissections of the human body while applauding human massacres for entertainment) and provocative (proposing that falling ill is not something that happens to us but something we choose to do). But the best moments are noncontroversial explanations...
...amid the fractious squabbling of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, the G.O.P. scored a major sweep. Despite numerous visits and pep talks by Mondale, despite two trips to the state by the President, the voters turned the Democrats out of the governorship and both Senate seats. In a rueful postmortem, a shellshocked Mondale concluded: "I shouldn't have told them to do it for Hubert Humphrey and me, but to do it for themselves...
Meanwhile, leftist leaders were conducting a bitter postmortem. Mitterrand blamed the left's defeat on the Communists, who "did not hesitate to add their unceasing and violent attacks [against the Socialists] to those of the right." Later, in a closed session of his party's executive committee, he declared: "We did not obtain as many votes as the public opinion polls had predicted because Georges Marchais frightened the undecided voters who were getting ready to cast their ballots for us. They asked themselves how we could govern with the Communists...
Kirkland goalie Groper offered his postmortem by saying that Winthrop's passing game was good. "They had three good goals. We didn't control the puck--we usually do." Looking back at his team's earlier 6-2 victory over Winthrop, he added, "We have the potential to kill them again...