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Saturday Night Live was not just another television show; it was the show that changed television. When it made its debut in October 1975, Carol Burnett and Sonny and Cher were still the definition of hip TV comedy. NBC's new late- night series burst onto that scene with a countercultural whoop. It brought to TV, for the first time, the comic sensibility of the '60s generation: anti- Establishment, idol-smashing, media savvy. The show seemed to break new ground almost weekly: pushing the boundaries of permissible language and subject matter, rejuvenating political satire, breaking the "fourth wall" to make...
...places that women regularly gather without men around, there is much discussion of quads, glutes and pecs. Many of these women know their cholesterol count, optimum training heart rate and body-fat percentage. Says instructor and center co-owner Karen Shaffer, 43, who bears a striking resemblance to Carol Burnett: "We talk about boobs a lot." Jazzercise is also an hour of dancing, something that women seem to like a good deal more than men do. Says writer and editor Phyllis Kluger, 51, a six-year Jazzercise veteran: "I enjoy dancing, and, if I come here, I don't have...
However, moderate animal rights groups are not gaining ground in the United States nearly as fast as the more radical ones. Membership in the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has grown from 8000 in 1983 to over 300,000 today, according to Carol Burnett, spokesperson for the group...
PETA considers itself a "non-violent" group. But Burnett clarified that, "If there is no [human] life involved, and if there is just property damage, we can't take a position against it... We don't consider liberating an animal from a lab violent...
...human volunteers, instead. If animal experimentation were eliminated and scientific research were hurt as a consequence, the probable increase in human suffering and death would not be a big problem for PETA. "We don't have a right to exploit animals under some notion of 'human good," said Burnett...