Word: tv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choice protesters ring the pro-lifers, trying to cover them up with placards, so that the TV cameras register support for the clinics. The pro- choicers chant and demand the arrest of the pro-lifers: "Read 'em their rights, and take 'em away." Each group has its grisly signs -- aborted fetuses on one side, women's corpses bloody from illegal abortions on the other. It is a noisy scene, hymns vs. chanted slogans, with both sides resorting to bullhorns to get above the din (and the police finally adding their loudspeakers). The task of the police is first to detach...
...1970s a TV cartoon series called Schoolhouse Rock used catchy tunes to teach children about everything from verbs to the Constitution. Now teacher Ross Kapstein of Atlanta has given that idea an '80s twist by writing and recording a rap-song tribute to the basic theories of economics. Employing a funky beat and styling the title, RUN G.N.P., after rap stars Run-D.M.C., Kapstein hopes to help his seventh-graders at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School remember concepts like the law of supply and demand. Sample verse: "People's tastes change and so do I/ If I want...
...FORGOTTEN (USA, April 26, 9 p.m.). Six Viet Nam POWs, released 17 years after the war's end, discover that sinister Government forces were behind their capture. Steve Railsback, Stacy Keach and Keith Carradine co-star in this thriller, the USA cable network's first venture into made-for-TV moviedom...
GUTS AND GLORY: THE RISE AND FALL OF OLIVER NORTH (CBS, April 30, May 2, 9 p.m. EDT). Following his real-life trial, the embattled lieutenant colonel (David Keith) gets his day in TV court, courtesy of a two-part docudrama...
...ritual is eerily familiar. A public figure under fire for wrongdoing rises to defend himself, proclaiming his honesty, years of service and adherence to the rules. Last Thursday it was Jim Wright's turn before the TV cameras. The House Speaker's passionate statement was reminiscent of other notable political apologias: Richard Nixon's I-am-not-a-crook, Ed Meese's They-did-not-indict-me and, most recently, John Tower's I-am-a-man-of-some- discipline. Like the others, Wright's performance only emphasized how much trouble...