Word: stuff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rating. "Therefore, television must be scrutinized more vigorously than pop music, pop music more than pop movies, pop movies more than art-house movies. Books needn't be watched at all. If people are reading, after all, they must be bright and won't be affected by all this stuff...
Books were hot stuff 30 years ago, when Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer broke censorship barriers and hit the best-seller lists. At the same time, Lenny Bruce set the four-letter standard for comics, and in the '70s Pryor and George Carlin brought it to the masses, where it belonged. Midnight Cowboy, which won an Oscar for best picture of 1969, was rated X, and so were other lauded films, such as Medium Cool, Performance and The Devils. Explicit lyrics have been in the pop mainstream since the late '60s; the Jefferson Airplane sang "Up against...
SIEGFRIED AND ROY AT THE MIRAGE IN LAS VEGAS. If the flame-spewing volcano, the fish-filled tanks and the Polynesian-style gaming tables fail to bedazzle you, take in the hottest show on the Strip. Illusion prevails as a five-ton elephant disappears, Royal White tigers strut their stuff and glitzy dancing girls in armor play with a fire-breathing dragon...
Well, shucks. It's been a long time since we all bought our jeans blue and faded them on the hoof. Now mainstream fiction runs to my-divorce novels and the acid-washed prose of minimalism. Dreary stuff, which is why the old-time, down-home Robbins would be welcome, a leftover '60s bystander reflects. But Skinny Legs and All falls awkwardly between storytelling and pamphleteering, and the old, bouncy irreverence sours into preachiness and windy bosh...
...lives will be" -- of the victories of motherhood, small and evanescent, which occur largely behind closed doors with results apparent in the next decade, not the next deal. It is a profession in which almost nothing happens day by day but everything is won or lost over time. Important stuff for these women who, if they are lucky, will graduate to more than a paycheck...