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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the works deal with the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment through Buddhism, often reflecting the contrast between the serenity found within the walls of the monastery and the turmoil of the outside world. The scroll entitled "Landscape," from the 15th century, exemplifies this conflict, combining a short composition with a delicate pen-and-ink sketch of a mountainside in a long, narrow tankaku format...

Author: By Daniel J. Lehman, | Title: Calligraphy | 12/1/1989 | See Source »

...difficult to argue that commercial television today is largely censored and tightly controlled. It is virtually impossible for serious writers to produce a program for television which would deal with ideas hostile to the interests of the owners of the networks or to corporate sponsors...

Author: By Bernard Sanders, | Title: Time for an American Glasnost | 11/28/1989 | See Source »

Local stations use satellites to expand their newscasts -- and their profits. GM is angry over leaked pictures of its top-secret Saturn. Sony and Warner strike a deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol.134, No. 22 NOVEMBER 27, 1989 | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...yellow peril" panic over Japanese immigration to the U.S. But they are not much different from the alarmed press comments that are now greeting Japan's continuing economic ventures. When the Sony Corp. announced in September that it would buy Columbia Pictures Entertainment, for example, Newsweek called the deal "the biggest advance so far in a Japanese invasion of Hollywood." An entertainment-industry executive quoted by the Washington Post thought the acquisition might be "bad for America," as did an economist who saw "a potential for propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Yellow-Peril Journalism | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Peter G. Peterson, an American involved in the Sony-Columbia deal, wondered why Sony's acquisition was so controversial, while an Australian firm's attempted takeover of MGM/UA "was mainly treated by the media as a minor business news item." Part of the answer, he suggested in the Wall Street Journal, is a "media pandering to American xenophobia and latent racism." Sony chairman Akio Morita, noting the U.S. Government's World War II internment of Japanese Americans, surmised that Americans still see the Japanese as "strangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Yellow-Peril Journalism | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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