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...could admonish a radio station for airing "patently offensive" language, even if that language would be protected in another medium as less than "legally" obscene. The "uniquely pervasive presence" of broadcasting justifies such regulation, said Stevens, who tried to narrow the ruling to the facts of the case-an explicit comedy routine that could be heard by a child in the afternoon over New York's radio station WBAI-FM. Angrily dissenting, Brennan said that Stevens' rationale "could justify" banning Chaucer from the radio, as well as portions of the Watergate tapes and the Bible...
This documentary on teen-age crime, a segment in the "ABC News Closeup" series, may be the most disturbing and dramatic news program ever seen on American commercial television. It is certainly the most explicit. The network recommends "parental discretion" in the opening credits, and as the show unfolds, that cliche takes on new meaning. There is graphic violence, to be sure: bloodied heads; a lone youth being attacked by three others, one of them swinging a baseball bat; an unflinching look at a junkie mainlining. And the street toughs and ghetto dwellers who provide the sole narration converse...
...Christian Church-Disciples of Christ (1,302,000 members). Last October's General Assembly adopted "for study" a report stating that homosexuals' "gifts of ministry are to be welcomed" (referring to the "ministry" of all church members). The assembly rejected an explicit condemnation of homosexual life-style for Christians and set up a study on ordination, which will be dealt with at next year's assembly...
...courses; the diversity of choice put the structure of the student's program very much in the student's hands. The attack on that diversity began well before the core was proposed with such tactics as denying Gen Ed credit to students who took a course with an explicit loose-grading policy...
...interplay of light and material had already produced the best new museum building in America−the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, opened in 1972. Kahn accepted the job and designed a four-story box, dedicated to light: a building without gimmicks or stylistic narcissism, low-keyed but explicit, whose pale concrete, blond wood and natural linen wall coverings provided a strictly subordinate background to the paintings. (The architect never lived to see it finished; he died in 1974.) This unpretentious exactness of taste was much in keeping with Mellon's general style of philanthropy: the ambition being...