Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that I have been negatively affected by watching `Pulp Fiction.' I must now watch two hours of public television to reverse any negative effects." If only things were that simple. Not everyone can draw such a neat, clean line between what they watch on the movie screen and what takes place in their everyday life...
Eastwood and Streep, both already being named as sure contenders at next year's Academy Wards, have taken the task of adapting Robert James Waller's beautiful, simple, and two-year bestselling novel to screen with great style...
...call the flip side of American postwar supremacy. Everyone knows that after 1945 the center of world art moved to New York. Paris no longer "mattered" much. Once this dogma took hold, Americans lost interest in most new European art; the New York School pushed it off the radar screen, and it apparently lost the mandate of art history. The new, swelling museum culture in the U.S. tended to ignore it. In the early 1950s the prewar masters remained-Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Lager, Miro-but who was going to pay much attention to insipid French abstractionists like Hans Hartung...
...culture, they oppose government mandates on children's programming and demand that pbs stop relying on federal appropriations. "It's nauseating," says Charren, "that the same guy [Dole] who is attacking what's terrible in entertainment is working very hard to keep the alternatives from getting on the TV screen...
...programming choices for kids have multiplied with the explosion of cable channels, much of the most popular children's fare still gives parents fits. The king of them all, Fox's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, has spawned a merchandising industry, and later this month will appear on the big screen for the first time; that means small children will be kicking one another in record numbers as they exit the local multiplex...