Word: barney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other channels are putting on what was once available only on public TV, public TV is increasingly putting on pop crud. Why is it so civilizing to underwrite broadcasts of Wall Street Week, Cary Grant movies, John Bradshaw new age lectures, the powerfully annoying Barney -- or Lawrence Welk reruns, which are now shown on 77% of PBS stations. Chief PBS programmer Jennifer Lawson says, disingenuously, that the Welk shows are legitimate as "an alternative to violence and gratuitous sex on commercial television." Local stations find it's those shows at the not-exactly-Susan-Sontag end of things that inspire...
Meanwhile the President's gay constituency is disillusioned. Says Barney Frank, a homosexual member of Congress: "The victims of the prejudice would rather lose with the President on their side than win a small gain with him being perceived as having moved away." One Administration official says he wishes Clinton wouldn't insist on saying his moderated version of the Joint Chiefs' position is progress. "It would be better if he would admit that he had to compromise on a difficult issue, that this isn't what he believes, that this is what he was forced to accept or Congress...
...clouds gathering over her, Jessica seems cheerfully unaware of her situation. When photographers descend to capture these last days, she holds her parents by the hand and breaks into the Barney theme song. "I love you, you love me," she sings, as her parents chime in gamely. "We're a happy fam-i-leeee...
...government intervention is no substitute for hard-core cost management, as many of the young airlines seem already to have learned. Houston's UltrAir leases everything from flight crews, custodians and ticket agents to gates, office space and six 727-model aircraft. Says UltrAir chairman Barney Kogen: "We want to own absolutely nothing...
...know who Barney is, Senator Feinstein, but I'll sing the Barney song to you one of these days." -- SENATOR PAUL SIMON TO SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN AT THE SENATE HEARING ON TV VIOLENCE