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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brady encircles his outsize subject with equal parts of anecdote and scholarship. He does not attempt the intimate tone of Barbara Leaming's authorized 1983 biography or try for the high-skid finish of Charles Higham's Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius (1985). Citizen Welles covers more ground and digs deeper, revealing an artistic nomad whose life had too many ups, downs and lateral movements to be treated as a sales chart. The author is a great admirer, crediting Welles as an originator of the film noir genre and a technical pioneer whose influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Getting to The False Bottom | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

TSONGAS sees two reasons why the state's voters will rally around a budget entitlement for public education. Some will respond from a commitment to social justice, equal opportunity, and the need for a enlightened society. Tsongas says that while he supports this perspective, "it only reaches 50 percent of the voters...

Author: By Steven J.S. Glick, | Title: Staking the Claim for Education | 4/22/1989 | See Source »

PUNISHMENT: Bush should be locked in a room with the most aggressive sales reps from the top 50 insurance firms in the U.S. He should be let out only when he has agreed to purchase policies equal to the value of his entire salary. Care should be taken, however, to make sure that he is not eaten alive...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Tooth for a Tooth | 4/20/1989 | See Source »

This motion was not made for the sake of equal time; if we were to run an ad for the union, there would be no cries for a response from Eastern. In fact, we have run ads for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, but it was never suggested that we give the University equal space to present its side. The motion was made simply because the large majority of Crimson editors support the union's efforts, and they opposed the anti-union message that they felt was underlying Eastern's low fares...

Author: By Andrew R. Jassy, | Title: No Eds in Ads | 4/19/1989 | See Source »

...advertisements, we cannot begin to call for--or offer--free speech because we do not offer equal access; only those who have money can afford to use our advertisement pages as a medium. And, to compound this inequity, we, as the producers of our advertising, attempt to charge the highest prices possible in order to bring in the 'best' revenue--profits that reflect our own self-interest. Clearly, advertising cannot be included in the ideological notion of a "free press...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: The Buck Stops Here | 4/19/1989 | See Source »

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