Word: video
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...William Pollack's Real Boys, focuses on boys' emotional crises and academic problems in reading and writing. Researchers are exploring not just sexual harassment of girls but bullying and teasing of boys. A rash of school shootings by boys has brought calls to cut back on violent video games and provide more in-school counseling. And parents are objecting to certain excesses: "Is it really fair," wrote Kathleen Parker, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, "that one of [my son's] feminist teachers refuses even to use male pronouns, referring to all students as 'shes' and all work as 'hers...
...rain forests. Even with all the colorful visual distractions sprinkled throughout the film, one can't help but notice the handling of this clumsy plot. The persistent "rain forests can cure anything" mantra is annoyingly condescending, but without it, one might as well be watching a per-flight nature video with complementary Vivaldi playing on the soundtrack. Incidentally, the musical score is one of the better aspects of the film. It is majestic, holy and beautiful, right when it needs to be and never gets out of hand...
Almost every American is prepared to give a dissertation on Jerry Springer episodes--even the most straight-laced, devout CNN watcher has been tempted to buy the uncensored video--whether "Attack of the Angry Wives" or "She's Carrying Her Brother's Baby." One Harvard senior must have spent the year plastered to the tube in order to write Serving Society's Spectators: Daytime Talk-shows and the Creation of Synthetic Social Capital. Another student surely racked up an interesting rental record at the video store upon completion of When She Was Bad: A Study of Sex-Positive Pornographies...
...Apparently, you're the only ones that saw it," said Robinson to a group of reporters. "You look up at the Jumbotron [video scoreboard] and there it is right in front of your eyes. Blake didn't even shoot the puck, yet and the guy knocked [Moger] into the crease...
CYBER CYCLONE: It's do-it-yourself coaster thrills on CyberSpace Mountain at DisneyQuest, the huge video arcade in Florida's Walt Disney World. Visitors design their own ride, including broken track and 360[degree] loops, then are strapped into a pitch-and-roll simulator for 90 seconds of disorienting fun. Fret not, coaster geezers: though you don't go far, you can still get motion sickness...