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...VIDEOTAPES BECOME UNREAL. Faal at first tried to prove that Williams was not the man seen attacking Denny on the tape. To counter his argument, prosecutors Morrison and Janet Moore had to replay the video for the jury over and over again, thus dulling one of the state's sharpest tools. Jurors were ultimately convinced that Watson was the man who could be seen putting his foot on Denny's neck and that Williams was the one who hit Denny with a brick, then performed a demonic high step for the helicopter news cameras. As it appears to have done...
...HAPPEN: THE U.S. ECONOMY'S 4.8% growth rate in last year's fourth quarter was too fast to last. Still, though a spate of reports showing a marked early-1993 slowdown was no surprise, it was no cause for joy either. January numbers showing the sharpest plunge in new-home sales in 11 years might be shrugged off, since winter housing figures are notoriously unreliable. Slow February sales by major retail chains are a pattern worsened this year by storms. Drops in January factory orders, the late-February selling pace of new cars and an increase in first-time claims...
...sharpest zingers are directed at the National Endowment (a funder of Sullivan's show) and at what Sullivan calls "the process of both censorship and self-censorship," as when the imaginary troupe's artistic director cites the works she dare not mount except in bowdlerized form. In the play within the play, the actual inspector arrives just in time to see the fiasco and adores it, despite getting knocked unconscious in the melee: she perceives a deep expression of the decline of Western civilization and a succession of welcome bows to political correctness...
...revitalized itself." Even after he re-entered the campaign on Oct. 1, Perot appeared to be helping more than hurting Clinton, who returned the favor by not attacking him and even praised Perot for focusing public attention on the deficit. During the debates, the Texan aimed nearly all his sharpest barbs at Bush, while in effect defending the Democrat against the President's attacks on the draft issue by contending that it really no longer mattered what Clinton had done...
...BOTTOM LINE: A love-hate fascination with the media and pop culture sparks the season's sharpest new sketch comedy...