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With a section on readers' embarrassing moments and an interactive quiz, Parents is hard to distinguish from Seventeen or YM. Of course, these confessions feature parental blunders, not teen tribulations. Rather than tales of untimely menstruation, Parents spotlights more mature bloopers. In Parents' "I Can't Believe I Did That" section this month, a blushing mother admits to dosing off and leaving her baby in the automatic swing for four hours on the high speed setting. Likewise, "reader quizzes" bypass classic teen quandaries of "Does He Like You?" for more mature, soul-searchers like the "Family Stress Test." The familiar...
...quiz show Says You! panelists are asked to distinguish between rock and stone. Columnist Carolyn Faye Fox says, "There are no rocks named Mick Jagger." Hard Copy's Barry Nolan quickly adds, "There are no stones older than him." The World's Tony Kahn asks, "Would you like to pass a gallrock?" The correct answer: a stone is a rock that has been treated or processed. Or as Kahn quips, "A stone is a chip off the old rock...
...game show. Yes, the gallop of thundering nerds can be heard on Jeopardy!, but most shows have daters or honeymooners lewdly embarrassing each other. The mud wrestling is only verbal, but it's still a tiny step from Jerry Springer--and a long way from the stellar font of quiz shows, radio's Information, Please (1938-48), hosted by Clifton Fadiman and featuring the mordant wits Fred Allen and Oscar Levant. Back then folks tuned in to meet people cleverer than they were, not more deranged; and intelligence was an attribute to flaunt, not hide like an appendix scar. Today...
During reading period, which Dartboard largely spent reading women's magazines (Page 118: "How to Trim Those Ugly Thighs"; Page 119: "Quiz: Do You Have Low Self-Esteem?"), and during exam period itself, which Dartboard is largely spending removing the plastic wrap from textbooks for tomorrow's exams, it's easy to forget the real determining factor in every-one's exam experience...
...tuned in to the Howard Stern show two weeks ago. Don't ask, please. Anyway, the bad boy of radio was engaged in some sort of bimbo quiz show in which one judge was mentally ill and, prompted by Stern, trying in vain to elaborate on his scoring. Such "humor" is old hat for Stern. What caught my ear was that this ratings king and cash cow for Infinity Broadcasting was speaking of plans to retire. It was just days before Infinity sold 140 million shares to the public for $3 billion, and raises interesting questions for stockholders--not least...