Word: medium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hoppers, however, have no monopoly on sexual angst. TV has also become obsessed with virgins, from Felicity, Buffy and Dawson to next season's Popular and Wasteland. The medium loves titillating and moralizing, and virgin dramas allow both, a situation that has changed little since the 1978 controversy over NBC's James at 15. Dan Wakefield, who created James, says NBC then balked not at James' deflowering but at his using birth control: "They said that if James has sex at age 16 and is not married, he must suffer and be punished." Just so, Buffy can lose her maidenhead...
...idea is to draw throughout the year attention to the idea of light as an artistic medium and light as something the city owns, a city of light or city of enlightenment or understanding," said Matthew Belge, a lighting artist who helped develop the idea...
...idea is to draw throughout the year attention to the idea of light as an artistic medium and light as something the city owns, a city of light or city of enlightenment or understanding," said Matthew Belge, a lighting artist who helped develop the idea...
...chip is a well-meaning but deeply flawed attempt to help families screen the offerings of a medium run amuck. But there is a low-tech way to do the same thing. Granted, it doesn't have the TV makers or politicians behind it. But I'm thinking that we parents might screen our children's TV viewing by occasionally sitting with them, watching what they watch and making judgments about violence, sexual content, bad language and even gross behavior we'd prefer not to see imitated. When we're not home, we can instruct the sitter...
...time. Bash is running for just over a month, and the day after it finishes she'll be back in Los Angeles to start shooting the new season of Ally McBeal. "There's an intensity in the live experience that is very hard to replicate in any other medium," she says. "It's exciting for the audience and for the actors. Whether you land or not--whether you communicate or not--you know it immediately." She lands...