Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subject] is timely and people are interested." Alt said. "This is a topic at the heart of my scholarship...
...this comes at a time when television is subject to greater scrutiny than ever before--dating back, at least, to then Vice President Dan Quayle's famous 1992 speech in which he lambasted the character Murphy Brown for choosing to have a child out of wedlock. One can endlessly debate the question of whether television influences society or reflects it: Does Ellen Morgan's coming out in what is still our massest medium legitimize homosexuality, or does the sponsorship of a bottom-line business like ABC merely reflect its acceptance by a significant portion of the population? Clearly, the answer...
...Carey Show. He's referring to the famous episodes of Maude in which Bea Arthur's title character not only considered having an abortion, as a number of TV characters have in years since, but actually went out and got one. "Abortion," Helford believes, "is way too hot a subject now. Stuff that shows like All in the Family did--I don't think they'd let you get away with the kind of show with humor about racism, like the episode where Archie Bunker met Sammy Davis Jr. We've really gone backward in a big way." Marta Kauffman...
TIME: It must be odd having your sexuality a subject of national debate...
Jones admits that he is hesitant about the appeal of his subject matter to a broad audience and thus to the profit-minded publishing industry, but he points to a recent rise in writing published by younger writers...