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...just have to figure out how to dress up little FM. I'm guessing that "Barney" costumes are all the rage for the kiddies this year (FM qualifies as a "kiddie" at a year and nine months or so) but I hate "Barney," very much. I won't have my child seen in purple...
Among those who have signed the petition are Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine, Ambassador to the Vatican and former Boston mayor Raymond L. Flynn, former Cheers star Ted Danson, U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Byron said...
...operates Britain's largest phone system, are developing interactive links that will let viewers call up movies and other forms of entertainment and information on demand. "Murdoch now has a better global position than anyone else," says John Reidy, who follows the media industry for the investment firm Smith, Barney. "He has a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but we do not know how it's going to play...
...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...