Word: shows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should come in April, when the shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to send a craft called Magellan on its way to Venus. The space probe will begin orbiting the planet next year, using radar to map its cloud-hidden surface. The best maps now in existence, compiled by Soviet spacecraft, show features as small as a quarter-mile across, but Magellan is expected to do about ten times as well...
Generations' game is considerably more radical. A program integrating the two races as equal partners might just attract more viewers among blacks, who constitute a significant 20% of the daytime audience. "Nobody," says NBC entertainment President Brandon Tartikoff, "had tried to create a show for a large black population that exists in daytime audiences. I thought we should do it." Serials, moreover, can be long-lived (Guiding Light is in its 37th year), and NBC thinks it has designed a breakthrough, "a new automobile for the late 20th century," says Tartikoff...
...most sensitive question is how to portray Jesus Christ. Some tribes show him with a huge head to symbolize great wisdom or a massive chest to convey strength. But should he be depicted as an African? Urban Christians are more open to this than believers in the bush. Commissioned by the Catholic Cathedral in Kananga, Zaire, Enkobo Mpane created his first Bantu Christ from ebony in 1969. Parishioners rejected the work, so it hangs in a nearby convent. "Our parishioners still think of Christ as a Jew and not an African," reports Arley Brown, a U.S. Baptist teaching in Kinshasa...
Duluth is a city that makes a serious effort to provide protection. Heeding studies showing that men who spend time behind bars are less likely to assault their partners again, its police department was the first in the U.S. to institute mandatory arrest for suspected batterers. Similarly, the city's prosecutors vigorously pursue those who violate protection orders. But perhaps the most important aspect of the Duluth program is that it requires batterers to attend at least six months of counseling classes. A man who misses two meetings risks having to serve up to ten days in jail. Follow...
...admit that Heidi represents her bid "to demand attention and announce, 'I have something to say, and I want you to listen.' " She is much more comfortable recalling Heidi's early off-Broadway previews when she was scared that "all the people from Isn't It Romantic would show up waiting for the chicken jokes." Here her voice breaks into a hypertheatrical tone as she parodies the reaction of this mythical audience: "What happened to her? Where's the chicken...