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Furthermore, imagine a hypothetical situation. A man is working for a superior, another man, who continually makes comments in private about the size of his penis, the pleasure he has brought to others through oral sex, pornographic movies which depict scenes of bondage, etc. Though the first man may feel uncomfortable with such open talk about sexual matters, he would not mention it to anyone. Because it does not represent an overt sexual threat, it would be excused as unusually vulgar male banter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Anti-Hill Dissenters Just Didn't Get It | 10/18/1991 | See Source »

...never paralyzed; she is always prepared, whether playing a scene or carrying a film. The ferocious focus has always been there. When she was 13, she directed a short "tone poem," Hands of Time, a series of shots of hands that depict life from cradle to old age: a baby, a couple getting married, a man cocking a rifle, a man's hand on a pregnant woman's stomach, and an old man holding hands with a little kid. In one day, she had to write the treatment for it, select the cast, direct the crew, and decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jodie Foster: A Screen Gem Turns Director | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...real nose-dive for him to lose the election," says Larry Sabato, a professor of political science at the University of Virginia. But he also contends that if Bush vetoes the unemployment bill, "the Democrats will have a very powerful symbol for how they have been trying to depict Bush -- as friend of the rich, uncaring about ordinary people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: America's Run-Down Economy Aiming for Bush's Soft Spot | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

Heritage of the Brush, an exhibit of Chinese art, aims to depict major and fundamental trends in the field. While it frequently succeeds in illustrating an artistic development, and contains some terrific examples of Chinese art, this exhibit's treatment of the implications of an artistic heritage is, at best, cursory...

Author: By John M. Biers, | Title: Exhibit Simplifies Artistic Heritage | 10/4/1991 | See Source »

...history. The 1980 Census chronicled the "rural renaissance" of the 1970s, when city dwellers headed for the countryside by the tens of thousands. During the following decade, America did exactly the opposite. Preliminary figures from the 1990 Census -- the final tallies won't be available until after July 15 -- depict a nation that has been growing more rapidly and in more complex patterns than ever before. And with the large majority of congressional and legislative districts in the country scheduled to be redrawn over the next 18 months, it is proving one of the most controversial counts in history. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nation on the Move | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

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