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...Internet's (and democracy's) greatest strength. The hard truth, says John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the EFF and father of three young daughters, is that the burden ultimately falls where it always has: on the parents. "If you don't want your children fixating on filth," he says, "better step up to the tough task of raising them to find it as distasteful as you do yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONLINE EROTICA: ON A SCREEN NEAR YOU | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

...incarnated by Lori Petty,whose previous performances in "A League of TheirOwn" and "Point Break" gave little indication ofher leading-lady spunk. Petty is charismatic asall get out, swaggering about like an imminentfirecracker spinning on the sidewalk. Her whisperybaby-girl voice, which threatens to be irritating,instead coats the filth emerging from her mouthwith delicious irony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tank Girl Goes Hollywood | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

...network filth-mongers themselves haven't realized the extent of their degradation just yet; they are too busy grappling with a present dilemma precipitated by the profusion of grotes-queries. The next courtroom appearance for O.J. happens to coincide exactly with that of the infamous Menendez brothers. The latter celebrities are to undergo a ritual which the Simpson case has elevated from legalistic obscurity to event of national import: the "pre-trial" hearing. Why waste time on self-examination when the really crucial question is yet to be decided: Which freak gets top billing in the rogue's gallery...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Playing in the People's Court | 7/19/1994 | See Source »

Events like these prompted Russian President Boris Yeltsin two weeks ago to announce a crackdown on what he described as the "criminal filth" plaguing Russia, and especially Moscow. His decree, giving the police broad new powers to conduct searches and detain suspects, drew a sharp outcry from civil libertarians and last week was overwhelmingly condemned by the Russian parliament. Yet it was a symbol of the desperation to which Moscow, the once proud seat of the Russian and Soviet empires, has been reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow: City On Edge | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...kids whose brains are so poorly developed they can't function in school. This isn't child neglect, it's child endangerment." The Chicago story was a classic example of how a big-hearted, deep-pocketed government ends up subsidizing disaster. In all, the six mothers who lived in filth were collecting $5,496 a month in welfare payments. The system will keep on paying such women as long as they keep having children, don't get married and don't get a job. Which leads to an inflammatory proposal, one that is seeding a revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welfare Reform: The Vicious Cycle | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

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