Word: cleaning
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...step outside of ourselves and say, "Ah ha! I see that I have been negatively affected by watching `Pulp Fiction.' I must now watch two hours of public television to reverse any negative effects." If only things were that simple. Not everyone can draw such a neat, clean line between what they watch on the movie screen and what takes place in their everyday life...
...bring lots of underwear; you'll save some money. Why? Because the secret to a laundry-free year is oodles of undies. Maybe you'll never have to see a damp basement laundry room in Holworthy or Matthews. If you're clean on the inside, who cares about the outside...
Until recently, however, broadcasters ignored the law. After researchers discovered that stations throughout the country were claiming cartoons and old episodes of Leave It to Beaver and The Jetsons met the law's requirements, the fcc began a proceeding to make them clean up their act. There are more good children's television shows today than there have been in more than a decade, but even now 60% of the programs broadcasters claim meet the minimal requirements of the Children's Television Act air between...
Though the cultural-pollution issue looks like an easy win for the Republicans, it's not a clean sweep. As the debate develops in weeks to come, the soft spots in their arguments are likely to become more apparent. For a party committed to free-market principles -- and which also wants to defund public television and end government oversight of the airwaves -- a problem is that pop culture represents the free market at its freest, meaning most able to make a profitable pitch to the grosser appetites. Some of the most violent American films, like the Stallone-Willis-Schwarzenegger action...
President Clinton added another G.O.P. proposal to his expanding list of veto targets: the House's rewrite of the federal Clean Water Act. The President claimed that the bill's looser environmental and antipollution standards would turn back years of progress and send water quality "straight down the drain." The measure's backers-it still must get past a skeptical Senate-said the President's veto threat revealed that he was a captive of "environmental extremists...