Word: frontal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nominated for an Emmy in its second season, Starr's Sex and the City (HBO, Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.) follows sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker, also an Emmy nominee) and the three over-30 professional friends who provide her material. The show has gained notice for its frontal nudity, lewd puns and sex moves that Mike and Carol Brady would never have contemplated. But really, Sex and the City is groundbreaking because it's about the mundaneness of sex--to fake or not to fake, how to coach a man in bed. Even the sex scenes are comic...
With Eyes Wide Shut, the corpse sits up, erect again. If the film is a hit, it will help Hollywood remember what makes us tick, and tingle, and hurt, and come back for more. We might even get the full-frontal revelation of two souls abrading in the night...
Essentially, Hallmark is abandoning the high ground of prose and pictures for a frontal assault. Although the company still sells premium-priced (about $5) cards in its own shops and franchised outlets, the real battle has shifted to the mass-market stores, such as supermarkets and discounters. There the cardmakers are left slugging it out over exclusive contracts for coveted shelf space. The aggressive deals cut by retailers, combined with slowing sales volume, have put the squeeze on profits...
...Reason to see: It's about race and gender and culture and society and all sorts of politicized issues relevant to sensitive, educated people. But who are we kidding? Actually, we hear Joseph Salonga will present us his full frontal (male) nudity...
...light of the potential benefits which exist for the musicians themselves, it is unwise for the music industry to continue their frontal assault on MP3s. Attempts to vanquish MP3 production and distribution completely are fated to fail, for the system is already wildly popular and widely in use. Attacks on individual sites are similarly futile; not only is it often difficult to track down a site's creator, but it is nearly impossible to prosecute because laws out-lawing the practice are currently nonexistent...