Word: rickie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often about male sexual pursuit, Xscape shows us things from the female perspective. Several of these songs are about women who have been wronged and yet foolishly go back to their men. On the ballad Love's a Funny Thing, the lyrics sound like a transcript from a Ricki Lake segment: "Every time I fall I make myself believe that you are changing and someday the sun will shine...
...that has theoretical benefit in the future if it decreases the quality of life in the present. But seeing a hunched-over, frail woman shuffling behind a walker has to stir the thought, What would her life be like had she been on estrogen the past 20-plus years? RICKI POLLYCOVE, M.D. San Francisco A MAJOR DISSERVICE HAS BEEN DONE TO the women of this country. The article on estrogen fed the cancer fear in women. Your report was sensationalistic. HALINA WICZYK, M.D. Springfield, Massachusetts...
...RICKI LAKE ON LINE...
Even so, the rest of television will remain. On Saturdays alone, kids can watch as many as seven hours of WCW and WWF wrestling. Daytime talk shows like Ricki Lake are aiming at younger and younger audiences. Six-year-olds can watch reruns of the raunchy sitcom Married . with Children well before their bedtime. Then there are the commercials. Pay attention, for instance, to an ad for Starburst candy in which the adult world magically disappears when you pop a Starburst into your mouth. The message is clear and dangerous: kids can make things better by ingesting this incredibly cool...
Well, you won't find that on Montel Williams or the Ricki Lake show. Over the top even by the standards of daytime TV, Days of Our Lives' satanic plot line is just one example of the frenzied effort soap operas are making to maintain viewers and desperately lure new ones in the face of dwindling ratings. Currently 10 daytime soap operas are on network TV, just more than half the number that were airing in 1970. One reason for the falloff is the profusion of Oprah-style talk shows, which are able to serve up story lines about real...