Word: wwf
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...earn the association's seal. The system broke down in the 1970s, but for two decades it kept Batman from drinking blood and Wonder Woman dressed. What the politicians would prefer again is that the entertainment companies hold the line themselves. Of course, in a world where "WWF SmackDown!" qualifies as children's TV, nobody really knows where that line is supposed...
...today's culture and see that it was classic. We will find Eminem's lyrics in college poetry texts, and museum exhibitions on The Art of Doom. But for now, and from this crabby perspective, it looks like junk. Junk passing as bold popular art. Violent entertainment, from WWF to Howard Stern to the sleazier rap music, is not adult. It is, essentially, infantile - the expression of a caterwauling baby whose main pleasures are breaking things and playing with his caca. And the child of the '50s that still lives inside me wonders whether I would have been as eager...
...WWF's new voter-registration slogan...
Consider U.X. Open contestant Donnie McFadden, 30, a steakhouse chef, heavy-metal music fan and newly minted golf nut from Hobbs, N.M. His fashion sense is decidedly more WWF than PGA: tank top and shorts, shaved head, piercings and a sun tattoo across one forearm. "Golf shouldn't be about age or tax bracket," he barks. Laughs Michael Caruso, editor of Rupert Murdoch's new Gen-X magazine Maximum Golf (which claims a circulation of 300,000): "There's something to be said for anything that explodes the old form. Whether these things will ever catch on, I'm doubtful...
...enjoyed your comments about "Harry Potter." As a fifth grade teacher, I regularly witness my students frothing at the mouth when their names are called in the school library's weekly "Potter" drawing. I hope the book series has the staying power of Pokemon and the WWF... - Devik