European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes March columns comments a Media Romance is a reckless Romance by Ellen Goodman 1 know people do not normally read teenage sexual fantasies in a family but i will take the risk of being forever rated in order to offer you not to mention Hollywood my Kinkiest Media fantasies for Goodman fantasy take one the set of a the couple have been transported to this set on wings of passion and prose of the camera comes in for a fuzzy closeup within the limits of John Travolta and Olivia Newton John Are kissing John looks at Olivia and croons the hit your contraceptive or mine Goodman fantasy take two this scene is a manhat Tan Daryl a legendary figure who is a Centaur by Day and a woman by has come out of the Field and into the arms of her More conventional Tom flicking her blonde out of her she looks longingly at As they Trot into the camera pans delicately Over the birth con tool dial pack on the night reassuring us they will produce no Small Goodman fantasy take three the set this time is a to soap opera living the thrice married Linda recently widowed from a doctor who committed suicide after discovering that he performed a Exchange operation on his illegitimate is packing to embark on an her Girlfriend says with whatever remember your i could offer you other variations on my fantasy but by now you get the or to be you get what int in the missing from the most sexually explicit film or the most heated television show is any form of birth you can have pregnant but you cant have a condom in a love the message is that True Romance is careless what piqued my fantasy Frame of mind is the discouraging report from the Alan Guttmacher Institute that America is 1 in a losing we Lead All the other industrialized nations in the number of teenage the pregnancy rate for americans Between Ages 15 and 19 is 96 per this compares to 14 per thousand in the 35 in Sweden and 45 in England and the United states is the Only coun try in which teenage pregnancy is the researchers tried to figure out what makes the since the level of teenage sexual activity is about the same in All these after carefully ruling out a lot of other they found at least one Central other countries Are More tolerant of teen age sex than but Are More committed to a role in providing contraceptives and sex education to prevent in the United the Public debate hinges on morality As Well As we Haven decided whether our primary Mission is to focus on discouraging sex or preventing pregnancy through birth we Are fighting two halfhearted Battles instead of concentrating on the one that we can win the Battle against As the study american teenagers seem to have inherited the worst of All possible worlds regarding their exposure to messages about sex radio and to Tell them that sex is titillating yet at the same Young people get the message Good girls should say almost nothing that they see or hear about sex informs them about contraception or the importance of avoiding Given that we Are unlikely to resolve our National ambivalence about abstinence and at least before the next Oscar and emmy i am thrown Back to my personal fantasy the very least the Media can do is to make their torrid romances less Fer Goodman fantasy take four the movie set is a fort Lauderdale House rented for vacation by five fraternity boys from Sean Penn is bragging about his sexual exploit of the evening suddenly four of the others leap out of their Matt Dillon grabs Penn by the Collar and yells at him Are you crazy you had sex without a contraceptive get out of this fraternity Cut to an older and Wiser Penn explaining to the fresh men during Rush week How to Washington Post writers group mistakes up with which we will hot put by James Kilpatrick a few weeks ago i ended a column with the Obser vation that sportscaster John Madden had better be respected because he is too big to argue to my that sentence provoked at least a dozen reproachful letters saying that i had violated one of the oldest rules of Good i had ended a sen tence with a merciful heavens it is astonishing that people who seem honestly to care about English composition should still Revere this totem no such Rule As Fowler says in his admirable Little essay on the this cherished superstition is a hangover from the Days of Dryden and it was Dryden for reasons not easily to write in English but to think in latin and because prepositions in latin must always precede their Dryden believed English must be similarly Bosh time Magazine commented recently upon a decision of the supreme court reversing an important Deci Sion of a Legal scholar argues that the 1976 decision was a Fluke that the Legal system is Well rid How would the Latte Day disciples of Bon school rewrite that sentence would they prefer a Fluke of which the Legal system is Well Alf a columnist for the Seattle recently poked fun at the purists by paraphrasing a famous comment from Winston Collins wrote that a movie Crew got turned Down by military officials in Bre because a script contained inaccuracies up with which the Navy would not fowlers advice is sound follow no arbitrary but remember that there Are often two or More possible arrangements Between which a Choice should be consciously if the final preposition that has naturally presented itself sounds keep it if it does not sound still keep it if it has compensating or when among awkward possibilities it is the least the mail brings a couple of splendidly mixed met Lyn commenting upon president Rea Gans troubles with righting remarked that conservatives would rather go Down in flames than accept half a in North the news director of a to station urged reporters to be sceptical of any tip that comes from a source who refuses to be identified for any editor Worth his or her when a Trojan horse like that is Laid at your you begin to think somebody has an a to i would begin to think somebody was so wedded to cliches that he could not contrive fresh metaphors of his Yacc cd it is remarkable it is also depressing to note How frequently professional writers go to press with words that simply Are the wrong words that Are not even second cousins of the right in a newspaper a writer tells us about restored railway Yards near after lying decadent for several nerve Center is alive in the daily news of the to critic describes a science fiction series on while exploring a Pyramid As All Middle class California families do on six planets happen to line up just As they Are being duped by an egyptian tour Viola next thing they they Are in a society of that Viola on the next to the tallest 1985 Universal press Syndicate a ill today crossword by Eugene Sheffer across 1 Annabel Lee author 4 dress size 9 local pub 12 work unit 13 merger 14 River in Asia 15 recording group 17 card game 18 goal 19 popular cocktail 21 Waltz City 24 murder 25 in the family 26 Large tree 28 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