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...their request to visit the surrounding farmland, "The secret service said that 'It is forbidden and if you do, you will be out of the country in 24 hours,'" Meselson said...
...craftsmanship is humdrum. The narrative lacks suspense and liberating flights of fancy. The production has no style, no look, no distinctive flavor or texture or sound. And it constantly brings to mind better shows: a transvestite Richard III pales beside the Crummles troupe in Nicholas Nickleby; dancers costumed as forbidden foods on a TV diet show feebly echo the You Gotta Have a Gimmick number from Gypsy...
...with the experience of famine, their vegetarian diet was strictly rationed. Daily life was a harsh mix of work and Bible study. Men labored at construction around the compound, while modestly dressed women did household chores and schooled the children, who were rarely taken off the grounds. Television was forbidden, and children's birthdays were never celebrated. In caustic monologues, Koresh would lead his zealots through the Scripture in sessions that could last far into the night. To cover expenses, cult members donated their paychecks if they worked outside. Older members chipped in their Social Security checks and food stamps...
Individual journalists may have highly developed ethical sensibilities. But journalism as a whole, unlike law or medicine, has no licensing procedure, no disciplinary panels, no agreed-upon code of behavior. Practices that are perfectly acceptable to some major news-gathering institutions -- such as going undercover to expose wrongdoing -- are forbidden at others. At most places, no sin is automatically a firing offense. Editors insist on treating each case individually, which usually translates into permissively. Says USA Today editor Peter Prichard: "It depends on the circumstances, the individual case, the history, all sorts of things...
Inventor C. Francis Jenkins demonstrated his "long-distance cinema" by transmitting "still" pictures over radio waves from Washington to Philadelphia. U.S. Navy astronomer Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See denounced Albert Einstein as a fraud. Birth control was a subject of passionate debate, and in fact was forbidden under the U.S. penal code ("Every obscene, lewd or lascivious book . . . designed for preventing conception or producing abortion . . . is hereby declared to be non-mailable matter"). As this last item suggests, some attitudes do change. What has not changed in 70 years, however, is our determination to ensure that TIME still holds together...