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Then, while covering the Crimson's 14-1 win over Boston University in the Beanpot tournament at Fenway Park last week, it hit me. As I sat stuffing my face with hot dogs, peanuts and dining hall spinach eggrolls and looking out over one of the great sanctums of the game, I realized what had been bothering me this season-spinach...
...Spinach doesn't belong in eggrolls, I thought...
Listen to the rap group Basehead on its new song I Need a Joint: "So how to get over, how to get by?/ I wish I had a joint to get me high." The Seattle band Supersuckers has a song called Tasty Greens, which does not refer to spinach. The title of a new album by gangsta rapper Dr. Dre, The Chronic, is the name of a particularly potent strain of marijuana. More obliquely, the hard-rock band Living Colour celebrates Hemp (another of the virtually interchangeable terms for marijuana) in lyrics that read like something a junior-high burnout...
Producers and stations are now grappling with the problem of how to get some more spinach into the diet -- and, just as important, how to get kids to eat it. A batch of informational shows on the syndication market are drawing renewed attention. They include Beakman's World, a lighthearted science program featuring a frizzy-haired Mr. Wizard, currently seen on 225 stations; Scratch, a magazine-style show aimed at teens, airing on 110 stations; and Real News for Kids, a Turner Broadcasting production carried on 210. NBC has a new Saturday-morning entry in the field: Name Your Adventure...
...year half a dozen non- Disney animated features were released (Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Cool World, Rock-a-Doodle, Bebe's Kids and Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland). Some of these had charm to spare; others were what industry analyst Art Murphy calls "spinach pictures -- family films that are good for you." Popeye eats spinach, kids don't; the six films together managed just over half the take of Beauty and the Beast. It all proves the difficulty of matching either Disney's financial commitment to animation (about $40 million a feature, compared with...