Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impassive observer, the best I could think to do in response to such overt prejudice was to turn to beer-toting Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum and remind them that those who stand and watch are just as guilty as the perpetrators of abusive acts. Their blank stares reminded me that there is work yet to be done in the hallowed halls of what many see as the top intellectual breeding ground in the nation...
...writer," notes Goodman, "it's more fun to do these shows because you can put a girl in a situation she hasn't been in a hundred times before. Women on TV have generally been defined in terms of their relationship to someone else. But these girls stand alone." And some would argue that female actresses at 13 or 14 are better performers than their male counterparts. Says Alex Mack creator Jimmy Lynch: "Girls at that age are simply much more in control of their emotional valves...
...find it very disturbing when homosexuality is portrayed as a normal, alternative life-style. TV quite often glamorizes what happens in real life. Someone needs to take a stand on moral values. MARGARET WIEBE Winnipeg, Manitoba...
...design, filed suit against Kimberly-Clark Ltd. for copyright infringement. "When it comes to the population of Great Britain being invited ...to wipe their bottoms on what appears to be the work of a Knight of the Realm without his permission," a Pentaplex representative stated, "then a last stand must be taken." A spokesman at the company's U.S. headquarters noted that after its 1995 merger with Scott Paper, the license for Kleenex bathroom tissue was sold to another manufacturer. The case isn't going down the toilet; it's expected to go to court...
DIED. NANCY CLASTER, 82, peppy original hostess and co-creator of the quintessential kids' TV show for baby boomers, Romper Room; in Baltimore. A last-minute stand-in on the show's 1953 debut, Miss Nancy spent 11 years on air admonishing her moppet guests and tiny fans at home with the "Do Bees" and "Don't Bees" of good behavior...