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...like Do You Want to Dance? and Leader of the Pack, smoky laments like Am I Blue?, hubba-hubba novelties like the Andrews Sis ters' Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. The stage presence is an exuberantly self-aware parody of camp nostalgia and vulgarity: "Now here's another blasto from the pasto! You're gonna like this one 'cuz I shake my tits...
...Blasto. To a great extent, TV has ignored its responsibility in programming. The bulk of children's programming is at best dismal. Since the big dollar is in prime-time programming, none of the networks even bothers to have a children's division; and most producers of children's TV think of it only as a chance to pick up some experience before moving up to the big time. With a few notable exceptions, such as Popular Scientist Don Herbert's Watch...
...minutes, or twice the adult rate. Says Adman Frederick Bruns: "The priceless thing is repetition. You've got to get to a kid three to five times a week to get him to act on a message." Video Boy acts by nagging his parents to get him a "Blasto-tank-with-twin-rocket -launchers -by -Slambang -Toys." Once he gets it, though, he is invariably disappointed because the toy is always much smaller and much less exciting than it looked on the overdramatized commercial. Thus Video Boy learns a basic lesson of TV viewing: distrust...
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