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Experts say the experiments did not subject the students to unsafe levels of radiation. But Harvard ethicists have expressed alarm and outrage that an isolated, vulnerable segment of the population was subjected to experiments with radiation without its knowledge...
...talking-heads format used in "Sex Is..." may seem familiar to anyone who has ever watched PBS, but this is no PBS movie. The interviews are complemented by brief snippets from gay pornos, as well as bits from cheesy "health education" films from the `50s. There is a priceless segment on the special attachment that a little boy will have for his best friend...
...seem to be in the minority. Although the public rejected the TV comeback attempt of 1970s favorite Chevy Chase--who opened his first show's "news" segment with the decidedly retro line "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"--there is an almost insatiable appetite for 1970s-esque stuff. The founders of the "1970s preservation Society" and other entrants to the booming "nostalgia industry" are striking it rich. You may not own a lava lamp yet, but you probably will soon...
Advocates for the mentally retarded, who comprise a large segment of the radiation tests subjects of the Cold War era (prisoners and members of the military were most of the other victims), are calling for compensation...
...deadon that they're painful to hear. I'd say that "Saturday's Cool" was the true "Day in the Life" for the hip teens of the '90s, but it might be truer--and more embarrassing--to say that, with all its self-obsession, its orchestration and its segment-by-segment squeals and whispers, it's a '90s "Bohemian Rhapsody." And if THAT doesn't make you run out and purchase Teen Beat 96 Exploder, you are well and truly lost to the oversuspicious, cynical minimalism that will damn this generation, if anything does, permanently and without respite. I admit...