We just concluded a decade in which the most prominent sitcom, "Seinfeld," was a show about nothing. "Politically Incorrect," which treated politics as a branch of the Hollywood buzz machine, was launched. There was a magazine called George, which ran probing interviews on things like what Madonna would do if she were president. We had a Gingrich revolution that wasn't really a revolution, an O.J. trial that didn't lead to a conviction, an impeachment process that swallowed up two years of public debate with questions like what the definition of "is" is and whether oral sex is really sex.
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