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Bluenorthwest

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25. Yeah, it's not your childhood anymore that's true. But I'm not at all sure what a 'genuine cultural/

Reply to hifiguy (Reply #22)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 06:01 PM

Dec 2014

artistic figure' is or what standard you are using. I'd guess they would be very different from my own.
While Lenny was great and more of that would be welcome, at that time there were few African Americans on TV, no gay characters and strictly sexist portrayals of women. There were also very few channels to select from. There is more classical music and theater on TV now than in the past. More cinema, more documentary reporting. The Kardashians are always among us, the year Abby Road and Let It Bleed came out, 'Sugar, Sugar' by the Archies spent 4 weeks at #1 in the US and 8 in the UK. Same sort of thing.

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