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Granted, the premise of Aias is funny in a sick sort of way. After Achilles becomes a casualty of the Trojan War, the Greeks honor the clever Odysseus (Thomas Hale), not the fierce but heroic Aias (Daniel Vilmure), with Achilles' armor. Snubbed, Aias swears revenge on the ungrateful Greeks, but in the madness of his rampage, slaughters not the Greeks but their sheep. All the gore happens offstage, except for one scene in which Aias' tent is so packed with bloody sheep car-casses that it looks like a meat locker...
...have steadfastly refused, contending that the ads would offend some communities. No local station would broadcast them either -- until now. First San Francisco's KRON-TV, an NBC affiliate, announced it would end its ban, and plans to start airing three 15-second spots for Trojan condoms in February. "Someone had to break the ice," said Station General Manager James Smith. Cracking the ice some more, WXYZ, the ABC affiliate in Detroit, followed KRON's lead, and will broadcast a 30-second ad for LifeStyles condoms this week. Ansell International, maker of LifeStyles, says the same spot will soon appear...
...AIDS isn't just a gay disease. It's everybody's disease. And everybody who gets it dies. The Surgeon General says proper use of condoms can reduce your risk . . . I'll do a lot for love. But I'm not ready to die for it." In contrast, the Trojan commercials accepted by KRON are so muted as to be cryptic. "I'm 24, single and worried," says the clean-cut young man in one ad. "I'm a nice guy. I go out with nice girls. These days, some pretty terrible things are happening to some really nice people...
...usual, the legal issues obscured the real ones. The feminist fascists used the rape argument as a Trojan Horse. Their ultimate purpose was to recast the relations of men and women...
Hanfmann and his colleagues also found evidence to verify the legend that Sardis, capital of the ancient Lydian kingdom under King Croesus, was seized by Greek veterans of the Trojan War in the 12th century...