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Wednesday, March 30, 1994
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5th Annual Hispanics of Today Conference "Leaders of Today Working for a Better Tomorrow: Juntos Podemos!" University of Kansas April 8,10,1991 Featured Keynote Speakers Include
President, National Council of La Raza
■Samuel Betances
■Professor of Sociology,
Northeastern Illinois University
■Esther Valladolid Wolf
■Executive Director, Richard Cabot Clin
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Maundy Thursday, March 31, 7:30pm - Worship/Holy Communion
Good Friday, April 1, Noon - Service of Scripture and Hymns
7:30pm - Service of Darkness
Easter Sunday, April 3, 8:30 and 11:00am - Worship and Holy Communion
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Censorship and Its Progeny: The Future of Our First Amendment Freedoms
PUBLIC LECTURE
to be presented 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 30 at the Lied Center by
JOHN FROHNMAYER
former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts
Sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism and the School of Fine Arts at the University of Kansas, in cooperation with the William Allen White Foundation, the Office of Academic Affairs and the Division of Continuing Education.
TV comedy full of smut
By Lynn Elber
The Associated Press
If you're looking for a bit of TV titillation, or trying to avoid it, you may be in need of informed guidance.
Despite its reputation, "NYPD Blue" is a veritable bluenose compared with some of the bawdier comedies, according to a new study out of Florida State University.
"NYPD Blue" tends to play nude peekaboo, but a review of 21 hours of broadcast television — including other dramas and sitcoms — found that comedies routinely pack the most profanity and sexual impulses.
Florida State's department of communication, decided to research the topic after the local ABC affiliate initially refused to show "NYPD Blue."
(Well, there is the additional satisfaction of seeing a first-rate drama that respects the intelligence of viewers, but let's not start muddying the waters.)
The comedies studied had, on average, nearly triple the number of sexual references as "NYPD Blue."
Barbara Kaye, a Ph.D. candidate in
"I wondered if it was really that bad, and about what we're already seeing on TV," Kaye said by phone from Tallahassee. She worked with doctoral student Lucia Fishburne and coauthor Barry Sapolsky, an associate professor.
They studied series that, according to a poll of Florida State students, appeared to have the most sexual content. Programs from the four broadcast networks were taped and scrutinized, including ABC's "Oroseanne" and Fox Broadcasting Co.'s "Married with Children."
The researchers randomly selected three episodes of each show; they excluded the first two hours of "NYPD Blue," however, because debut episodes tend to be exaggerated to gain attention. Kave said.
She acknowledged that the show's
initial episode contained a fairly graphic — for television — bedroom scene.
However, the three episodes studied contained no incidents of implied or explicit sex, although there was one shot of rear male nudity and the partial baring of a woman's breast, the researchers found.
But when it came to sexuality in general, such as language or topics, the incidence was nearly three times greater on sitcoms than on "NYPD Blue" — a per-half-hour average of 13.5 on comedies vs. 5 on the police drama.
On an episode of "Roseanne," for example, masturbation was openly discussed after a youngster was caught in the act.
"Can you imagine the Beaver saying that to Eddie? And watching it with your parents?" marveled Kaye, referring to characters on the old "Leavd it to Beaver" series.
Health foods invade theaters
By John Horn The Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — Coming to a theater near you: Health Wars.
A new wave of movie snacks big on nutrition and light on sugar is arriving in movie theater lobbies. Although traditional concession-stand block-busters such as red licorice and Milk Duds are not yet going the way of the silents, the new breed of finger food will fight to change the concession stand lineup.
Movie theater owners earn more money from concessions than ticket sales, making attractive snack lineups as important as booking the next "Batman" sequel. In 1993, domestic concessions sales totaled $1.5 billion.
But the bulk of those sales were made with sugary, caloric snacks and carbonated beverages with little nutritional value. Because much of the nation is either dieting or thinking about dieting, less toxic snacks are suddenly in vogue.
At some posh theaters and art houses in large metropolitan cities such as San Francisco and New York, today's filgoers are able to buy fresh fruit, iced coffees, muffins, flavored sparkling waters and other delicacies. The average multiplex, however, has been slow to offer improved variety — and middle-American theaters are even further behind the curve.
"The lines at the water fountain are the people who don't want to buy carbonated drinks. They want something else," said John Ludwig, whose China Mist Tea Co. makes fresh-brewed iced tea. "Iced tea is the mineral water of the '90s."
vention here.
China Mist said movie theater sales had soared in the last three years. Its unsweetened tea has another big selling point: it costs the theater owners next to nothing. A $2 cup of tea costs about 5 cents to make. Ludwig said.
China Mist was among several food suppliers pushing more beneficial products at this month's National Association of Theater Owners' con-
"The trend in beverages is new-age type drinks," said the partnerships Peter Pappas, the popularity of such drinks as Snapple. "Consumers are getting tired of soft drinks and the sugar content."
Like some other new theater foods, the flavored teas appeal to older patrons who might otherwise skip the concession counter.
Pepsi has formed a partnership with Lipton to bring flavored and sweetened iced teas to movie theaters across the country.
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"Theater owners are looking for something different," Pappas said. "Flavored teas are something different — something new."
A new Los Angeles company, Taste of Nature, has grown quickly since introducing its new breed of movie food two years ago. Thanks to bulk trail mix, dried fruits and yogurt-covered snacks, Taste of Nature has moved into more than 1,000 theater locations in 25 states.
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