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...Implicit in all these controversies over sexual privacy has been the admirable social goal of protecting and supporting the family. The traditional religious taboos probably once had a similar goal. Government lawmakers simply followed that tradition (Burger's "Judeo-Christian moral and ethical standards") when they tried to ban lewd movies or lewd whatever, and the Justices did much the same, even in their Georgia sodomy ruling...
...Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and other fairy-tale figures all take place on the same day in the same forest, practically within bumping distance. The show is still evolving through workshop stagings, but according to one Sondheim friend, "It is about the consequences implicit in those stories--what happens during the 40 years after Cinderella marries the prince...
...astonishing. The irreverent interplay between Heathcliff Huxtable and his children on The Cosby Show is unthinkable and exciting to young Singaporeans, for instance. Fatalism about entrenched social arrangements is challenged by pop's anything-goes quality. In Africa and Latin America, black American pop stars bring with them an implicit hopefulness; Thriller is thrilling partly as a totem of black achievement. Hollywood does not promote revolution but rather a flashy kind of Yankee individualism--spontaneous, self-reliant and acquisitive. "American film exports the American dream," says Charlton Heston, "which is achievable, not a fantasy. What film has done...
...countries where American pop is officially discouraged or limited, however, playing a Huey Lewis tape or wearing Jordache jeans can be an implicit political gesture, a tiny, tinny blow for individual liberty. One young Czech puts it bluntly: "Coke equals America. America equals freedom." In the Soviet Union, VCRS and audiocassette players are inherently democratizing devices. "The new communications technology has changed things completely," says one Moscow father of teenagers. "Tapes can be played over and over, exchanged, copied." In the '50s American moral vigilantes sometimes claimed that rock 'n' roll was the creation of Communist subversives out to undermine...
Harvard fundraisers probably won't be seen passing the hat at September's 350th celebration, but judging by the alumni the University chose to invite as class representatives, attendance at the event is in part a reward for past giving and service to the alma mater--with the implicit hope that such generosity continues after the big party...