Word: tv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poolside cellulars, have not yet proliferated in Paris. It is in California, not the Dordogne, where your teenager phones you and then puts you on hold. Similarly, Europeans remember when their films were the risque ones. Hah! Now . the show is on the other foot. Europeans at the TV children's hour would be aghast at the torrent of video violence, the Tampax-machine gags on Murphy Brown, or the 27 -- count 'em -- condom jokes in a single segment of Kate & Allie...
...going on in Europe, only whether he liked it in California. Last month a television-news crew staked out the portals of the Beverly Hills Hotel as the visiting Jacques Chirac, the former French Premier and still well-known mayor of Paris, strode inside, trailing limousines and entourage. The TV crew failed to budge. Turns out it was there to cover a more important celebrity, wrestler Hulk Hogan...
Teenagers are committing more assaults, rapes and murders. And the aggression cuts across racial and class lines. Experts blame everything from physiological abnormalities to movies, rock music and TV cartoons glorifying brutality. Curbing the violence depends not on tougher punishment but on better treatment programs and restoring values that stress human worth...
VIDEO: In late-night TV, politics is a laughing matter...
...environmental movement enlists a passel of Tinseltown do-gooders to spread the ecological word through movies, TV, songs and newsworthy glamour...