Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be simple. Thurgood Marshall predicted the end to all school segregation within five years of Brown v. Board of Education. Now we live with thwarted expectations and the sort of intellectual meanness that goes with disappointed hopes. Integration, the best idea this country ever had, dares not speak its name...
Reality is not exactly the first word that springs to mind when thinking of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po. The first television show explicitly designed for the one- to two-year-old set, it centers on the comical activities of four fuzzy creatures who speak in baby talk, eat Tubby Custard ("Tubby Tustard!"), share "big hugs," and have TV antennas on their heads and TV screens on their stomachs that transmit short film clips showing real children. In other words, this is a TV show about infants, for infants, that extols the wonders of, among other things, television...
...course, since the target audience does not yet speak, we don't know what they do think--but kids plainly love Teletubbies. About 2 million people in Britain have watched it daily since its launch last year; it has been sold to 22 countries; and since premiering on PBS in April, it has swiftly landed alongside Barney and Sesame Street in the top five of the system's kids' shows...
...funnel ideas to Warner Bros.--Brown interjects that the proof of integrity will ultimately lie, as it should, with the magazine itself. "There is a kind of whiff of corruption that comes off an unpure magazine. It's like that empathic communication between dolphins--you don't have to speak about...
...rate, with no concrete plans to speak of, what we are left with is the glittering promise of yet another supergroup. This used to be the province of rock stars; now it belongs to disgruntled media executives. Whether the Brown-Galotti-Weinstein alliance will prove to be another DreamWorks, which seems to be working out O.K., or a misguided marriage, like Mike Ovitz being shoehorned into Disney, remains to be seen. Only the sizzle, the sell, is certain. As a reporter prepares to turn off his tape recorder, the interview over, Weinstein can't help but remind...