Word: wags
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...circus, a classroom and the Brothers Grimm. At first it was suspected of merely looking brilliant, compared with the boring horrors of standard children's programming. Vulgarity and violence dominate children's video: mice endlessly bombing cats, family "comedies" with dumb daddies, mischievous kids and dogs who wag their way into your heart, all accompanied by commercials as intense as the Chinese water torture ("Be the first on your block . . . Ask Mommy to get some . . . New! Big! Free! Wow! WOW!"). By now, even the most cynical promoters have begun to realize that Sesame Street is no fluke and that...
Finally, this movie of unsexy sex and unleavened violence reveals its most absurd quality: an R rating. The rating system merely operates its hypocritical faculties when it X's such legitimate movies as Medium Cool, then blesses The Adventurers with a finger wag. Gazing at that lone letter, the viewer is left with the same question that occurs as he watches this beer picture on a champagne budget of $10 million...