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...finding refuge and transcendence in dancing school (At the Ballet), a mouse whose charms are augmented by cosmetic surgery (Dance 10, Looks 3), a teenager whose parents find him dressed as a drag princess. But touched by the minimalist magic of Director Michael Bennett, they found life in the viewer's mind...
Social workers are almost unanimous in citing the influence of the popular media--television, rock music, videos, movies--in propelling the trend toward precocious sexuality. One survey has shown that in the course of a year the average viewer sees more than 9,000 scenes of suggested sexual intercourse or innuendo on prime-time TV. "Our young people are barraged by the message that to be sophisticated they must be sexually hip," says Williams. "They don't even buy toothpaste to clean their teeth. They buy it to be sexually attractive...
...Carrie slips away and ventures back to her roots near the Texas Gulf Coast to discover what the viewer will have long suspected: the town of Bountiful no longer exists. The land there is used up, and the world has moved on. We are left to contemplate a modest triumph of the human spirit...
...builds with its closeups of three attractive youngsters and the mostly helpful adults around them. But the film isn't pushy; it doesn't manipulate feelings so much as caress, massage them, allow them to grow naturally, and them challenge them, in the mind and heart of the sympathetic viewer...
...takes a different story into the upfronts. ABC, having shot into contention for the top of the ratings with "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives," will be in full-on gloat mode. NBC, which went from first to fourth place in one year among the crucial 18-to-49-year-old viewer group, will be in full-on crisis-management mode (to the delight of rivals who have suffered several years of NBC gloating under the self-congratulatory slogan "The Quality Shows" - until they lost "Friends" and gained "Joey" and became "The Desperation Shows.") CBS hope to show that there is life...