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...ending violent impulses in America. Jumping into the family values fray, he voiced his support for "parental responsibility" in regulating television viewing, made possible by a new techological innovation. A device called a "V chip" may now be built in to the back of the television, allowing parents to monitor programming that comes into their homes. Each program would be tagged with a violence rating; parents would simply adjust the V chip to the level of violence they would allow...
...insisted on calling these scenes "snippets," but by then defensiveness was rampant. At the film's press junket, each journalist was subject to two security checks before being allowed to enter the screening room. While the film played, edgy Universal brass stood along the walls of the theater to monitor the crowd's reactions. "Please," a studio publicist jokingly begged a reporter before the junket began, "just shoot...
...minutes and 10 or 11 seconds into it, you saw the water. It was agonizingly slow. And then a bubble floats up and you begin to see the water seep in -- it had a greenish brown tinge -- until the entire compartment was filled. The jurors leaned into the television monitor as the water became visible. Some just lowered their heads and shook them back and forth, as if to say 'No, no.'"Susan Smith Page
...inside the Simpson courtroom note how lawyers have learned to turn their back to the camera when exchanging jokes and smirks. And though joking persists even after Judge Lance Ito enters the chamber, solemnity rules once the camera begins to roll. Even home viewers perceive the impact as they monitor Marcia Clark's Di-like makeover, with hair that's gone from shaggy mane to Madison Avenue sleek and a once frumpy wardrobe that now rivals Grace Van Owen...
...Republicans have a few aggressive pork busters in their ranks, most notably Arizona Senator John McCain. While most lawmakers pay little attention to the thousands of line items in appropriations bills, he has assigned a sharp-eyed 29-year-old staff member, Mark Buse, to pore over them and monitor the Senate floor for as long as 13 hours at a stretch. Buse has earned the nickname "the ferret" -- as well as the enmity of Senators annoyed by his zealous impertinence. But Peter Sepp, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union, says, "Mark's efforts have been absolutely critical...