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Many women are dispensing with the cumbersome chador and are wearing simple head scarves. At the Red Shopping Mall in northern Tehran, teenage girls sport cut-down Islamic dresses called mini-manteaus, with flashes of color from bandanas under their scarves. Says an Iranian student: "Women are trying to make a statement. They're trying to say, 'We are still here.' " Bright new buses ply the capital's busy main streets, while shops and showrooms spill over with expensive consumer goods...
...reality-check time in network television last week. After a blizzard of press attention and network hype, ABC finally brought forth Wild Palms, Oliver Stone's dazzling, challenging, future-shocked mini-series. It fizzled in the ratings. After years of twisting and turning in an effort to adapt to a new TV landscape, the networks unveiled their fall schedules. It looked like 1973 again...
TELEVISION: A Mind-Bending Mini-Series...
...been a dull TV season; now for a little mind-bending mayhem. For four nights next week, ABC will plunge viewers into the bright, bizarre world of Wild Palms. The six-hour mini-series is the brainchild of two intriguing newcomers to network TV: Oliver Stone, the director of JFK and Platoon, and Bruce Wagner, writer of a hallucinated comic strip in Details magazine on which the mini-series is based. A few minutes into this futuristic fantasy, and viewers numbed by TV's docudrama deluge will realize they've stumbled onto something special. A few more minutes...
...attract an audience that rarely watches network TV, but not too weird to turn off the Home Improvement crowd. Whatever happens, ABC programmers claim they have learned one lesson from their last experiment in prime-time surrealism: unlike Twin Peaks, Wild Palms will not drag on indefinitely. The mini-series has a fixed ending (unfortunately, a rather lame one), and there are no plans to extend...