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Aiming to embrace the media's aspirations to high art as well as their roots in vaudeville, AMMI serves up film and television history in two strengths: straight up and with a shot of circus-clown seltzer. But even the serious exhibitions provide the tang of astonishment. A display of 58 machines -- from the 1835 thaumatrope to tomorrow's Sony GV-8 Video Walkman -- pulses with the gimcrack genius of those anonymous technicians who gave artists the tools to dream with. The spirit of Philo T. Farnsworth, boy pioneer of TV, rides again...
CREDIT:ILLUSTRATION FOR TIME BY ISADORE SELTZER...
Ever since the days of Clarabell the clown and his ever ready seltzer bottle, parents have complained about the quality of children's TV programming. But seldom have they had so much to complain about. A typical afternoon of kidvid these days can be a mind-numbing march of cartoon superheroes like He-Man, BraveStarr and the Defenders of the Earth. Many shows, from The Transformers to Pound Puppies, are based on hot-selling toys and seem intended to shuffle kids straight from the TV set into the toy store. Worst of all in the critics' view, under the deregulatory...
...names of the married couples who first met here. There have been 550 or so. They don't keep track of divorces. There's a bar on the right. You shoot your cuffs, walk over the way Bogart would, quiet and self- assured, order the usual, a salt-free seltzer water, slice of lime to give it a jolt...
...turn of Manhattan-based American Natural Beverage, which should sell about $30 million of its Soho Natural Sodas this year. In an out-of-court settlement, the ten-year-old company forced Anheuser-Busch (1986 revenues: $7.6 billion) to drop the checkerboard logo that appears on its Zeltzer Seltzer sodas. American Natural had charged that the Zeltzer Seltzer design looked "confusingly similar" to its own. Said American Natural President Sophia Collier: "This just shows you have to fight for what's right...