Word: impactful
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...impact of the latest power struggle is hard to ignore. Last year's toleration of dissent is clearly at an end. Deng Liqun, a leading member of the party secretariat and the conservatives' chief ideologue, has shut at least seven liberal newspapers and journals since January and is reasserting party control over virtually all Chinese publications. Said a Communist official in a recent speech: "As everyone knows, journalism is a component of the party's undertakings and is its mouthpiece." Deng Liqun has also reinstated political indoctrination in China's schools. Peking University students must now attend two political classes...
...self-policing in gospel TV have failed miserably. The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability of Washington monitors the ethical performance of agencies independent of church control and gives them a seal of approval. But its leader, the Rev. Arthur Borden, admits that loss of such accreditation has no impact on an agency. Of the biggest TV evangelists, only Billy Graham, who does not have a weekly series, is a member in good standing. The National Religious Broadcasters, to which most of the big operations belong, is toughening its ethical code and creating a voluntary agency to accredit broadcasters' ethics...
Will the current furor weaken the evangelical movement, which has gained enormous impact and visibility over the past two decades? Sociologist James Davison Hunter of the University of Virginia thinks not. "It is very much a populist movement that derives its strength from the vision of reality it holds and an expansive set of institutions which sustain that vision," he observes. "The TV ministry is a small part of this. A visible part, but a small part...
...believably ecstatic at word that he is "gonna be somebody's daddy" by an unseen mistress. And it is unlikely that he and his wife, so eager for respectability, would debate this news in the backyard, with neighbors' windows a dozen feet away. Nonetheless, in craftsmanship, poignance and lingering impact, Fences represents a major step forward for Wilson. In the decade or so since the emergence of David Mamet, the American stage has not heard so impassioned and authentic a new voice...
...endlessly languorous coupling between one of the sisters, wearing a teddy, and her piano teacher is decorously filmed at a distance. Whatever its impact on females, male viewers may think they are watching two tired high ) school wrestlers from a balcony seat. "It's beginner's porn," says Steffani Martin. "Sensitivity is wonderful, but it's not grounds for arousal," says Jim Holliday, a longtime porn maven who says he has watched some 7,000 X-rated films, and is the author of Only the Best, a new book about pornographic films. "I admire Royalle, but I personally...