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...play] focuses on the turmoil of life in the New York gay community in the '80s, and it spans the advent of the AIDS virus," Saunders said...
...scratch most of the postcommunist world too, where the advent of market economies has been a decidedly mixed blessing for women. Female unemployment is up, female-supportive services like public child care are getting as scarce as public portraits of Stalin. In Poland women have lost their right to abortion. In Russia it's a fact of postcommunist economic life that an office job can include a responsibility to sleep with the boss...
...advent of rock-compilation sound tracks is perhaps a more serious threat to the film composer's art. Increasingly, composers are finding themselves shouldered aside, as studios and record companies insert rock songs wherever possible, with an eye to creating a best-selling album. "A lot of directors lately are using a crowbar to stick songs in a movie where they clearly don't belong," complains agent Richard Kraft, who represents a number of composers...
What, until recently, most 'zines had in common was that they were as non-commercial, communal and idealistic as the Internet itself. But all that changed with the advent last year of HotWired, the sassy online sister of Wired, and later of Pathfinder, Time Warner's mammoth collection of magazines-come-to-the-Net. Advertisers sensed new possibilities. And why not? The typical Internet user is a Madison Avenue parfait: mid-30s, hyper educated, mostly male, and with plenty of disposable income and free time...
Beyond increasing the appeal of violence, more and more practical problems which are sure to arise, such as when three siblings, ages five, 10 and 15, share a television and parents are forced to choose between the increasingly "adult" unfiltered and too-filtered programming. Moreover, the advent of the chip represents yet another substitute for parental involvement. The television has become an electronic babysitter for many children. A sign of "parental responsibility" is not setting a level of violence, but providing a home in which alternatives to the world of television exist...