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...aborted merger with ITT), and its hold on last place in the ratings seemed depressingly unshakable. Some of the network's hit shows of the late 1960s and early '70s were often faddish entries, quick to catch on and quick to fade away: Batman, The Mod Squad, Kung Fu. ABC's ratings woes became the subject of mordant jokes. Asked how to end the Viet Nam War, industry wags would reply, "Turn it into an ABC series and it will be canceled in 13 weeks...
Inspired partly by Kung Fu movies and African dance styles, black and Hispanic teen-agers invented breaking more than ten years ago in New York City's South Bronx. Its name, some say, came from the percussive instrumental break in soul-music songs. The dance caught the fancy of the press about two years ago and was propelled into fame by music videos and such recent films as Breakin ', which earned $36 million, and Beat Street ($16 million). Breakin' has sold more than a million copies, and music to break by continues to sizzle on the charts...
...thesis, which compared Yolngu breast-feeding habits with those of the !Kung of Africa and the La Leche League of Boston, a local advocacy group. The study, she says, has implications for the growing movement for the return to breast-feeding. "There are a lot of people calling for a return to breast-feeding. Breast-feeding is very good aside from these fertility-delaying effects. But with a greater number of women enter, the workforce, the debate is becoming more difficult and fewer women can breast-feed," she says.CrimsonTimothy W. PlassEAMES DEMETRIOS...
These are inferences the talented Hui allows the viewer to draw; but the pace is hardly ruminative. Mostly, Boat People motors along with Kung Fu industry: visiting a "chicken farm," where the ten-year-old and his sisters scavenge the effects of recently executed prisoners; negotiating a field laced with land mines, a legacy of the U.S. involvement; gazing unflinchingly as the children's mother impales herself on a hook; tracing the attempt of the children and their benefactor, a Japanese photographer (Lam Chi-cheung), to bribe and fight their way to "freedom," which here is just another word...
...Reviewing the new Stroker Ace, a dreary bomb starring Reynolds and Loni Anderson, he found much to praise: "Five motor-vehicle chases. Eight crashes. No beasts. No breasts, but Loni comes close. One beer-joint brawl. One guy through a plate-glass window and into the swim pool. No kung fu. No plot. Two and a half stars (one off for lack of sufficient Loni anatomy). Joe Bob says check it out." Drive-ins may be down, but in Alamo country, fans like Joe Bob will defend them so long as beer foams, popcorn pops and Hollywood serves...