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...intimidate the entertainment companies into reining in themselves, as they did with the bumptious movie-industry Hays office of the 1930s and '40s and the Comics Magazine Association of America, an industry group formed in 1954 after Senate hearings into bloody and smutty comic books. It gave its seal of approval only to comic books that went easy on the cleavage and eye gouging. Most retailers would not sell comics that did not earn the association's seal. The system broke down in the 1970s, but for two decades it kept Batman from drinking blood and Wonder Woman dressed. What...
Bush couldn't get away with crying foul when Gore asks him for his plan for Medicare Part B if the media refs weren't acting prissy too. After Monica, the press is aiming for a campaign that merits a Junior League seal of approval. Gore was labeled "martial" by the Washington Post last week for saying "I hope that my opponent will also present to you specifics of how he would address the problem of children who do not have health coverage today." Viewer discretion advised...
...Only fan favorite Rudy was neither more nor less than he had been. Unrepentant to guffaws about his Rudyisms, talking about honor and his Navy SEAL "buddies," nailing some pretty good punch lines. Rudy has applied for "Survivor II" in Australia. "I'm going to keep trying till I win," he says...
...Action" died quickly last fall, owing less to Lieberman's seal of disapproval than to the fact that its scathing, brilliant satire was too "inside" for most viewers. One would hope Lieberman (and his Republican allies like Bill Bennett) would take the lesson: that audiences are perfectly capable of changing the channel, accepting and rejecting entertainment in a free market. But don't count...
...meantime, consumers can look for the seal of the National Nutritional Foods Association, the largest dietary-supplement trade group in the U.S. Members are required to submit to random inspection by a third party, which rates them on basic quality-control measures and cleanliness. Only those receiving an A rating are allowed to apply for certification and use of the N.N.F.A. good-manufacturing-practices seal...