Word: tv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...natural image," warns Adri Boudewyn, spokesman for the California Milk Advisory Board. The dairy industry is concerned that critics of BST will try to turn public opinion against the hormone. Anti-BST television and radio commercials have already been produced but have not yet aired. One 30-second TV spot, created by Jeremy Rifkin, the flamboyant Washington-based opponent of most biotechnology, features a glass of milk with a hypodermic syringe lying beside it. A voice asks, "What are they doing to our milk...
...some of the Playboy empire's most valuable assets: namely, 421 hours of unedited videotape footage displaying Hugh Hefner's Playmates cavorting for the cameras. Valued at more than $1 million, the tapes constitute the raw material for such soft-porn piffle as erotic movies on the Playboy cable-TV channel and videocassette centerfolds. They included vintage rushes of Sondra Theodore, Miss July 1977 and a former Hefner girlfriend, interviews with Jessica Hahn, and the 1989 Playboy Video Calendar. Playboy officials fear that the culprits will edit the stolen material in video chop shops and resell it in overseas markets...
...well seem arbitrary results of government policy." Entrepreneurs and party officials profit from the economic reforms, but office workers and intellectuals do not. So while an individual's expectations are conditioned by the prosperity he sees around him, that newfound affluence is cruelly out of reach for many. TV, with its ubiquitous images of the wealth that many enjoy beyond China's borders, has deepened the dissatisfaction. The contrast is all the more painful because, amid it all, corruption flourishes. Says Rosen: "There's an ideological confusion. People feel leaders don't know how to solve problems...
...THIN BLUE LINE (PBS, May 24, 9 p.m. on most stations). Errol Morris' hypnotically compelling documentary about a Texas murder case helped win the release in March of Randall Adams after twelve years in prison. Now the "nonfiction feature" makes its TV debut on American Playhouse, the series that originally commissioned...
...music video playing on MTV, singer Taylor Dayne's Tell It to My Heart. The craze has already spread to Chicago. Predicts New York City video producer David Bronstein: "I see a lot of choreographers who could be influenced. I see a big crossover there for stage, for TV, for film...