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Powerful images affect human beings, and in a democracy, human beings affect the decision-making process. That's why anti-abortion activists show The Silent Scream. That's why anti-hunger activists show horrifying pictures of malnourished children. If the networks hadn't sent graphic, troubling images of war home from Vietnam, American soldiers might still be out there in the jungle...
...from peanut butter to video games. The bimonthly magazine (circ. 250,000) is published by the nonprofit Consumers Union, which has been doling out advice to adults in its Consumer Reports for the past 55 years. The difference is that Zillions delivers buying tips with savvy humor and snazzy graphic designs and that the products are tested by an unusual group of experts: the kids themselves. Says Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television: "Zillions figured out how to attract youngsters to information they need and does it with elan...
Haynes dines on controversy. His previous picture was the rough, wickedly funny Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, a sort of Valley of the Dolls (but with real dolls) that was suppressed by the Carpenter family. Poison is a more somber affair. The shock comes not from any graphic sex, for there is none, but from the pristine virtuosity of Haynes' craft. In three interlocking stories inspired by Jean Genet, this homoerotic Intolerance details the . toxicity of prejudice, fear and disease, as played out in a tumid hothouse of forbidden sexual longing. A scientist who turns leprous when he drinks...
...numbers more intimate but merely cramped others. And even more than in the original version, the show sorely lacks the cinematic fluidity of Les Miserables or The Phantom of the Opera. But Hytner has triumphed at the end, making what used to be an unbearably depressing suicide mercifully less graphic. With set designer John Napier, he has found a less realistic, more suggestive look that better serves the metaphorical layers of this most ambitious musical -- yet is entirely congenial to that helicopter...
...that has changed. Crimes nationwide rose 32% in 1989 and an additional 13% last year; the sharpest jump was in grave crimes like murder, aggravated assault and rape, which increased 44% in January. Freed by glasnost to report such unpleasant facts, Soviet television and newspapers have turned graphic tales of violence into standard fare. The result has been to fuel public fears that chaos is impending. "Before, people didn't know how much crime we had in this country," says Lieut. General Anatoly Alekseyev, head of the Interior Ministry's police college in Moscow. "The revelation that we have crime...