首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
One positive consequence of our current national crisis may be at least a temporary reduction in Hollywood’s culture of violence
One positive consequence of our current national crisis may be at least a temporary reduction in Hollywood’s culture of violence
admin
2012-07-11
35
问题
One positive consequence of our current national crisis may be at least a temporary reduction in Hollywood’s culture of violence. Fearful of offending audiences in the wake of the terrorist attack, some moviemakers have postponed the release of films with terrorist themes. Television writers are shelving or delaying scripts with warlike and terrorist plots. It is probably good thinking. My local video store tells me nobody is checking out "disaster" movies, says the manager, Robert, "Currently, people want comedy. They want an escape from stories about violence and terrorism." Similarly, in the music business there is a run on patriotic and inspirational tapes and CDs.
According to The New York Times, the Self-examination among these kinds of mass entertainment taste is unprecedented in scale, sweeping aside hundreds of millions of dollars in projects that no longer seem appropriate. A reasonable concern is that this might be a short-term phenomenon. Once life returns to something more normal, will Hollywood return to its bad old ways? The Times offers a glimmer of hope that it may be. The industry’s giants, it suggests, are struggling with much more difficult, long-range questions about what the public will want once the initial shock from the terrorist attacks wears off. Many in the industry admit they do not know where the boundaries of taste and consumer tolerance now lie.
This is an opportunity for public to suggest to Hollywood where that boundary of consumer tolerance is. Especially those of us who have not yet convinced Hollywood to cease its descent into ever-lower levels of desensitization (麻木不仁的) of our young.
The nonprofit, nonpartisan (无党派的) Parents Television Council, which monitors the quality of TV programming, says in its latest report that today’s TV shows are more laced than ever with sexual immortality, cruelties, violence and foul language. The traditional family hour between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., when the networks used to offer programs for the entire family, has disappeared. The problem looks like it will get worse. That certainly looked to be the case before the Sept. 11 assault. One pre-attack The New York Times story reported that TV producers were fighting for scripts that in-elude every crude word imaginable. The struggles between network censors (审查员) and producers, according to the report, were "growing more intense".
At this moment of crisis in our nation’s history, thought has become more contemplative, prayerful, and spiritual. It may be the time to tell the entertainment industry that we want not a temporary pause in the flow of tastelessness, but a long-term cleanup.
The hesitation of the movie industry is a good opportunity for the public to tell it where that the boundary of______.
选项
答案
consumer tolerance is
解析
题干中的a good opportunity for the public出现在第三段首句。题干中的where that the boundary of与原文一致,of后的consumer tolerance is即为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/TqE7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
Themostimportantstepindevelopinganeffectivecampaign,andthestepwhichmustcomebeforeallothers,istodefinetheob
A、Ithelpstoavoidconflict.B、Itstopsanykindofargument.C、Ithelpspeoplegettheirownway.D、Itimprovesthebusinesso
Althoughtherearebodylanguagesthatcancrossculturalboundaries,cultureisstillasignificantfactorinallbodylanguage
Althoughtherearebodylanguagesthatcancrossculturalboundaries,cultureisstillasignificantfactorinallbodylanguage
Formanypeople,electricityisavitalpartofeverydaylifeandisoftentakenforgranted.Butnoteveryonehas【B1】______to
Formanypeople,electricityisavitalpartofeverydaylifeandisoftentakenforgranted.Butnoteveryonehas【B1】______to
Thehumanbraincontains10thousandmillioncellsandeachofthesemayhaveathousandconnec-tions.Suchenormousnumbersus
Thehumanbraincontains10thousandmillioncellsandeachofthesemayhaveathousandconnec-tions.Suchenormousnumbersus
Thehumanbraincontains10thousandmillioncellsandeachofthesemayhaveathousandconnec-tions.Suchenormousnumbersus
IndustrialpollutionisnotonlyaproblemforthecountriesofEuropeandNorthAmerica.Itisanextremelyseriousproblemin
随机试题
1995年9月1日施行的新中国成立以来我国制定的第一部教育基本法是()。
刑法分则某条规定:犯甲罪的,处3年以下有期徒刑,并处或单处罚金。根据刑法有关规定,下列哪些判决可能是正确的?
[2006年,第25题]两瓶不同类的理想气体,其分子平均平动动能相等,但它们单位体积内的分子数不相同,则这两种气体的温度和压强关系为()。
【2011—4】题11~15:某圆形办公室,半径为5m,吊顶高3.3m,采用格栅式荧光灯嵌入顶棚布置成三条光带,平面布置如图所示,请回答下列问题,并列出解答过程。若该办公室的工作面距地面高0.75m,则该办公室的室空间比为下列哪一项数值?
下列关于比较研究法的说法,正确的有( )。
下列选项中不属于隐性课程的特点的是()。
管理者设置有效的控制系统应满足的条件是()。
依照《村民委员会组织法》的规定,村民委员会对()。
两辆汽车同时从AB两站相对开出,在B侧距中点20km处,两车相遇,继续以原速前进,到达对方出发站后又立即返回,两车再在距A站160km处第二次相遇,则A、B两站的距离为()。
A"scientistic"viewoflanguagewasdominantamongphilosophersandlinguistswhoaffectedtodevelopascientificanalysisof
最新回复
(
0
)