Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Life to Live as well as the prime-time drama ER on subjects ranging from teen pregnancy to coming to terms with a gay high school athlete. Says Matt James, a Kaiser senior vice president: "We're trying to work with them to improve the public-health content of their shows...
...then there's real-life television. MTV's Loveline, an hour-long Q.-and-A. show featuring sex guru Drew Pinsky (see accompanying story), is drawing raves among teens for its informative sexual content. Pinsky seems to be almost idolized by some youths. "Dr. Drew has some excellent advice," says Keri, an eighth-grader in Denver. "It's not just sex, it's real life. Society makes you say you've got to look at shows like Baywatch, but I'm sick of blond bimbos. They're so fake. Screenwriters ought to get a life...
There may be a huge demand for Viagra, the wonder drug that can treat impotence [MEDICINE, May 4]. But is there a sufficient supply of willing sex partners to satisfy the resulting appetite for intercourse? Pity the working women, the mothers and the partners who are content with the status quo. The true winners with Viagra are the drug companies and, of course, the sex workers. Thanks to all those unsatisfied Viagra junkies, they will experience a boom in the trade. KRISTINA WANG New Farm, Australia...
...20th century saw more restless experimentation with style and content in art than any other in history. Never before had there been so many ideas about what art could be or how it could be made; never had new art been the subject of such impassioned controversy or reached so large an audience. Museums, especially in the U.S., had to embrace newness or look retro. The century didn't see the birth of the avant-garde--that had happened earlier--but it did bring its death, after experiment and eccentricity became the norm. Inevitably, all that had seemed startling...
Smith's recorded performances reflect hints of the multi-layered meanings, beyond the literal content of the lyrics, with which blues women often endowed the songs they sang. In fact, looking at early women's blues from a modern perspective, we can detect emerging feminist themes...