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IT TAKES TWO.("Significant Others")(Television Program Review)

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The theme song for the Bravo miniseries "Significant Others," an improvisational comedy about the marriages and the marriage-therapy sessions of four couples, is a speed-rock version of the old Partridge Family hit with the refrain "I think I love you, so what am I so afraid of / I'm afraid that I'm not sure of a love there is no cure for." Leaving aside the bizarreness of any Partridge Family song's having survived into the twenty-first century in any form, the musical question and answer happen to be pertinent to the marital fix that these couples find themselves in: they're afraid that they've been swallowed up by marriage and are stuck with partners who are only ...

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