Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...illicit sex, casual violence, alcohol promotion, materialism, vulgarity," declared a resolution passed by 15,000 members attending the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. The tough words are being backed by action, with the Baptists, and others, launching long-range educational programs and citizens' campaigns to clean...
...Rosovsky says, the Faculty didn't worry about mechanics, and the program became increasingly less organized as course offerings proliferated. In these more cynical '70s, Rosovsky says, reformers are likely to proceed with greater caution, trying to sidestep the pitfalls before they arise so they won't have to clean up the mess later...
...importance to the nation than Lance's future. When Comptroller of the Currency John Heimann concluded his inquiry into Lance's conduct as a Georgia banker with the verdict that Bert had done nothing that warranted prosecution, Carter pounced on the report as if it were a clean bill of health. It was not, yet the President made a point of whipping down from Camp David aboard a helicopter and proclaiming before a nationwide TV audience, "Bert, I'm proud...
...possible-though unlikely-that public pressure could yet squelch Soap, but even if that happens, the networks are not now going to go clean. It can also be argued that sex, like any other reality, deserves a role in TV entertainments that purport to portray contemporary life. The real trouble with Soap, a series in which characters exchange sexual partners almost as often as they do wisecracks, is that sex is used only for cheap gags. Television, which routinely trivializes so much of experience, should not be permitted to take the fun out of intimacy...
Variety Sonny and Cher are gone, but Donny and Marie will be back on ABC. This year Sister Osmond will forsake her clean-teen look for boots, bobbed hair and slinky high fashion. Joining the song-and-skit brigade this season: Richard Pryor, who will bring his jive, streetwise humor to a new NBC variety series, and Redd Foxx, who will sanitize his stand-up act for his own weekly show...