Word: janet
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...Pentagon would have if we had fought a war to depose Viacom's Sumner Redstone instead of Saddam Hussein. And in a way, the ETS is the nerve center of a war: the War on Indecency. It is a war that had a shot seen round the world--Janet Jackson at the 2004 Super Bowl--but had been simmering much longer. It is a war with strange allies and enemies: it pits free-market conservatives against family-values conservatives, free-speech liberals against Big Government liberals, and a normally pro-business Congress and White House against megacorporations. (Among them...
...that recent example shows, it sometimes seems as if the Janet Jackson aftermath changed very little. It has--but in scattershot and inconsistent ways. In November, 65 ABC affiliates refused to air the uncut war movie Saving Private Ryan because of its profanity--although it had run without incident twice before. "It's a shame people couldn't see this patriotic film," said former Democratic presidential candidate General Wesley Clark, criticizing the FCC for waiting until February to rule that the film was not indecent. "They deserve an opportunity to see as much of the unvarnished truth as possible." (Even...
...Locco Ritoro Gallery, on the upper level of the complex, features an exhibition by Utah-based painter Janet Shapero, called “Luminous Passages.” The works resemble paintings, but instead of canvases, Shapero has painted what appears to be window-screening; applying the paint in different thicknesses allows her to let more or less of the screen’s texture come through. The screens are marked by bright colors and rectangular designs, but an all-over marble pattern prevents them from being overly geometric. The exhibit runs through March...
Celebrity you most resembled then: Mostly when I was younger, I got Whitney Houston, Tatyana Ali, Janet Jackson...
...point to point in the plot, with no logic. His willingness to make big, sudden changes. He was completely and utterly unusual, and deeply unafraid." Critics wondered at the ahistorical sumptuousness of the movie and whether the director had gotten a little carried away with his new studio money. Janet Maslin of the New York Times wrote that Kapur and his screenwriter had made "spectacle their priority" and that the film was "historical drama for anyone whose idea of history is back issues of Vogue." Nevertheless, there was no denying the latent talent of star and director, and all expected...