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...COLUMBIAN ART AND THE POST-COLUMBIAN WORLD, by Barbara Braun (Abrams; $75). African sculpture and its influence on modern art is well documented. Less so is the effect of ancient American design on 19th and 20th century painters, sculptors and architects. Braun traces the aesthetic roots of artists such as sculptor Henry Moore, painter Paul Klee and architect Frank Lloyd Wright back to the Maya, Aztec and pre-Columbian civilizations of Peru...
...commentator on TV and want to demonstrate what a dreadful sitcom Cafe Americain is, or how sappy Barbara Walters' interviews are, or the creepiness of Michael Jackson's music videos. Could I turn on the VCR, pluck out some telling snippets, then use those clips as video "quotes" to illustrate my criticisms? No, I could not, as I discovered firsthand, again and again, in the course of producing three specials for two different networks between 1990 and 1992. Although fair use theoretically applies to television just as it does to magazines and newspapers, as a practical matter it exists intermittently...
...copyright owner. (Imagine if a book critic had to get Rush Limbaugh's permission to quote his prose in a review, and maybe pay him for the privilege; that's precisely the situation in TV.) Furthermore, television "signal piracy" -- that is, merely taping and then broadcasting 10 seconds of Barbara Walters in order to critique her performance -- is a federal crime. Well, then, could one at least produce a high-verisimilitude parody of Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror? No, not if the Supreme Court upholds an appeals court ruling that 2 Live Crew "stole" Roy Orbison...
...inquiry commissioned by the Franciscan Order of the Roman Catholic Church found that sexual abuse took place at St. Anthony's Seminary in Santa Barbara for more than 20 years. The yearlong investigation uncovered proof that at least 34 boys were molested by 11 friars from 1964 to 1987. Prosecutions are not expected, however, as the six-year statute of limitations on sex crimes...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...