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...this space last week to tell you about our objections to a Bush-Quayle television commercial that centered on our April 20, 1992, cover showing a negative photographic image of Bill Clinton. The use of that cover was not authorized by TIME, nor did we sanction the commercial's implicit message that we were taking sides in the election. We asked the Bush- Quayle campaign to withdraw the ad, and when they refused, we filed suit. , Last week, in a hearing before a federal judge in Washington, lawyers for the Bush-Quayle campaign said the commercial had been withdrawn...
...prominent politicians. One reason: they thought the rumors of infidelity might come up, and this would afford them a chance to start defusing such stories. It happened as they foresaw; they readily affirmed that their marriage had been through some shaky times, but insisted it was now rock solid. Implicit message from Clinton: Even if I did commit adultery, so what? It's in the past, and so long as Hillary is satisfied about that and will stick by me, it's no one else's business...
Thus when the Bush-Quayle campaign used a Time cover last week as the centerpiece of a commercial attacking Bill Clinton, we asked Robert Teeter, chairman of Bush-Quayle '92, to withdraw it. "The implicit suggestion of the commercial that Time endorses its contents is extremely damaging to Time's reputation," we wrote. The cover in question, which appeared on our April 20 issue, was an examination of the problems Clinton was having during the primaries with voters who did not trust him -- but it did not endorse President Bush, nor did it conclude that Governor Clinton was untrustworthy...
...lawyer to show the court a sheaf of "pornographic" photos that Allen had taken of Soon-Yi -- before Judge Phyllis Gangel-Jacob sensibly called the two stars into her chambers and told them to shut up. But the December ruling has consequences beyond the front page. It sets an implicit precedent for unmarried couples, including homosexuals, to adopt children. Notes Weltz: "Any two single individuals, whatever their persuasion, can now say, 'Look, you did it for Mia and Woody. Therefore...
...danger" implicit in all the uproar is of empty-headed, suggestible black kids, crouching by their boom boxes, waiting for the word. But what Ice- T's fans know and his detractors obviously don't is that Cop Killer is just one more entry in pop music's long history of macho hyperbole and violent boast. Flip to the classic-rock station, and you might catch the Rolling Stones announcing "the time is right for violent revo-loo-shun!" from their 1968 hit Street Fighting Man. And where were the defenders of our law- ( enforcement officers when a white British...