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...show some may see as apostasy? Doug Donaldson, who is selling the videotape of the Moyers shows for educational and home-video markets, says pre-broadcast sales have been "doing gangbusters," with one major exception: traditional religious distributors. Some sense of why may be gleaned from Roberta Hestenes, an academician and Presbyterian pastor and one of Moyers' guests. Although quick to say she "thoroughly enjoyed" her experience on the show, she found the conversations were missing something: "I wondered about the God dimension of the stories." Her panel dwelled on the tales' human characters and on their structure--on everything...
This time, Abu-Jamal has larger sums at his disposal. A committee has raised $100,000 from the likes of actors Ed Asner and Whoopi Goldberg and academician Cornel West. That might be enough money to buy three more years' worth of appeals. No one expects Abu-Jamal...
Time has done its annoying work, converting Lichtenstein into a historical figure remarkable for his taste, his dependable virtuosity and his pictorial manners. He has become the great academician of the Pop movement -- its equivalent of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the English artist who, a hundred years ago, attained the summit of popularity with his idealized, skillfully painted and mildly sexy reconstructions of classical Roman life, done again, and again, and again...
...where are we? Have we begun to advocate limits on diversity? Is the athlete not welcome? Well, I hope not. I think that we can still live together happily, the athlete and the academician, rejoicing in our diversity...
Enter Bill Bennett, academician, Education Secretary in the Reagan Administration, ex-head of Bush's antidrug program. Like Bush, Bennett had stumped for Helms. In his first statements as the designated G.O.P. chairman, Bennett defended Helms' campaign strategy as "perfectly legitimate." He also criticized affirmative-action programs generally. After all, he had co- authored a 1979 book called Counting by Race, which argued, "Quite simply, numerical equality is an unworthy means for a people dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...