Word: topicalism
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...Jason Priestly (Brandon Walsh). The guys deny that they watch the show due to the visual appeal of actresses like Jennie Garth or Tiffani Amber Thiessen, but their reasons for watching do involve women. Johnson admits, "My girlfriend, Nicole, got me hooked on '90210'...The show is a great topic for conversations with girls." Another source conceded that he began watching the show at Exeter where "`90210' was a big social thing. We would crowd 40 people into a room, clapping along to the intro song and shouting...
Though rape itself obviously deserves a lot of our attention, I feel that the issue of judicious and fair media coverage of this crime is also an important topic. Smith evidently is not so concerned about this; in supporting his position, he asserts that "all the personal harm possible from character misrepresentation or even from defamation, whether valid or not, is greatly out-weighed by the harm experienced by a victim of sexual assault...
Melia did do some studying to brush up on his knowledge of popular culture after being notified in December that the show had changed its format to stress the topic...
Public schooling is probably the last topic swirling around in your cluttered head, but it never hurts to think about it. And it definitely doesn't hurt schoolchildren if everyone gets involved on at least a cognitive level. Education is supposed to be the stronghold of our citizenry. How can it be if a small number of people are actively involved while the rest just criticize...
Racism has always been a hot topic in certain circles, but, especially with President Clinton's recent call for a national dialogue on race, race rhetoric seems to be taking on unprecedented proportions. In particular, we hear more frequently how pervasive and over-whelming racism is today and how much progress has yet to be made. I imagine these are claims that confuse and make uncomfortable many white Americans (in as much as they are implicated as the guilty party). Confuse because there seems to be such a vast disparity between where blacks are today and where they once were...