Word: explicitness
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Closer to home, this year's censure of Crimson President Ira E. Stoll bespeaks the same sort of misdirection. True, he offended the entire Crimson staff with a sexually explicit insult. And true, his action was entirely uncalled for and another example of remarkably poor judgement...
...Moore re-explores his hometown of Flint, Michigan, to see how things have changed since his filming of "Roger and Me," another incisive look at life in a factory town after all the factories have closed. The tirade is against General Motors, unemployment, and as the opening warning indicates, "explicit corporate behavior." Striking a hard blow to the American Dream, Moore sardonically rejoices in the establishment of nine new Taco Bells in Flint, in spite of the increase in layoffs...
...coincidentally match the initials HHH of the high school, Hubert H. Humphrey). Mark gives advice for the lost teenagers who "come out" on the air. These include, as you may have guessed, the repressed, studious suicidal Malcolm; the perfect, beautiful and smart Page; and most of all, the sexually explicit "Eat-me, Beat-me Lady," Nora, played enticingly by Samantha Mathis...
...quietly trying to downplay the show's racy content. The network sent its affiliates two episodes in addition to the pilot (neither segment has as much explicit material) and got Bochco to trim 15 seconds from the first show's lovemaking scene. ABC's Harbert says that scene is the "high benchmark" for what the series will allow; half the episodes, he promises, will have no nudity at all. "Given that our schedule is so dominated by family programming, such as Roseanne and Home Improvement, we felt there is room for a show that stretches the boundaries, so long...
Federman says he is unsure whether managedcompetition, which has never been tried, would beas promising as proponents hope. "The plan isterrific on access, very hard to interpret forcosts, and not explicit about quality," he says...