Television Review | 'Merv Griffinâs Crosswords': Across and Down: Filling in the Blanks of Popular Culture
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Among the final projects in the long and impressively industrious life of Merv Griffin, who died of cancer last month, was a new game show devoted to one of the passions that presumably sustained his mental agility through his 82 years. Called âMerv Griffinâs Crosswords,â the half-hour show made its debut on syndicated television last week, and it could easily renew troublesome questions about Americaâs cultural literacy and thus its future role in the world.
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Sometimes media metrics and audiences have very different views of what works.
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Imagine Larry Davidâs HBOâs series, âCurb Your Enthusiasm,â without the bile. Thatâs the tone of âI Want Someone to Eat Cheese With.â
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The complicated etiquette of saying "Get lost" online.
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I was lazily flipping around the other night and came across the second half of the final episode of "The Prisoner." This is like saying you were out for a drive on an Arizona highway and stumbled across the Grand Canyon.
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Harry MosesÂs entertaining documentary portrays the debate between connoisseurship and science as a culture war.
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Tycho:  Despite what the Mr. Period comics might imply, I think of grammar as somewhat tyrannical, and believe that an obsession with the mechanical perfection of language is at odds with actual communication.  At the same time, I know (generally) how things should be arranged, and so non-standard uses deliver naughty thrills.  There are floating syllables in the recent Twisp & Catsby thing that can only be resolved by a very specific reading, and they project from the phrases in a suggestive way.  I even like trade names:  words that evoke fierce, yet sensitive gladiators or spry androids.
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The term âthrowing in the towelâ takes on new meaning this week, thanks again to televisionâs continuing creative contribution to sport.
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By Mario Perez, ABC. A plane crash. An uncharted island. A tiny band of frightened survivors. Out of these familiar adventure-story components and a host of pop-culture conventions
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How two words illuminate the shift of power from the media to the people
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By Gary Levin  Question: What's the latest Band-Aid to treat what ails television networks?    a) Serialized thrillers.    b) Singing contests.    c) Old-fashioned game shows.
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When civilization falls, does it make a sound? Two books about the end of worlds--and what follows
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A four-letter term that came to  symbolize the difference between old and new media during this  year's presidential campaign tops U.S. dictionary publisher  Merriam-Webster's list of the 10 words of the year.
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Radio had its golden age in the 1930s. In the 1950s, it was television's turn. Historians may well date the golden age of the blog from 2004Âwhen Merriam-Webster.com's most searched-for definition was blog. How long can it last? Who knows? Here's what we discovered about the new medium this year
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By Gary Levin  September. January. March.    Until recently, TV networks rolled out their arsenals like clockwork.
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This show is an entertaining but sometimes too earnest primer about the politics of food.
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Boston - A four-letter term that came to symbolise the difference between old and new media during this year&#39;s presidential campaign tops United States dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster&#39;s list of the 10 words of the year.