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...license and had received a three-month suspended sentence from that nation's Supreme Court. In its landmark ruling, the human rights court, which sits in San Jose, Costa Rica, held that "the compulsory licensing of journalists is incompatible with Article 13 of the American Convention on Human Rights insofar as it denies some persons access to the full use of the news media as a means of expressing themselves or imparting information." In Washington, Executive Director Dana Bullen of the World Press Freedom Committee declared, "The ruling should have great impact. It's the best thing since the zipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Strong Message to Censors | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...Insofar as he settles anywhere on earth, Korean-born Video Artist Nam June Paik, 53, lives in Manhattan. More specifically, he inhabits the top of a converted warehouse with a rusting cast-iron facade in SoHo. Entree to Paik's aerie comes via a freight elevator, with the host himself hauling on the chain pulley that drags the motor into grumbling life. As the aging contraption shakes and shudders toward the fifth floor, Paik says in heavily accented English, "After this, everything anticlimax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Artist Nam June Paik: Four Who Brought Talent | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...short, we have entered the cra of non-material materialism. What's for sale is not the action, but the reaction: not the goods, but the good felling: not the product, but what it produces in you. Insofar as there is something for sale, it doesn't matter how much it costs or whether it's better than others of its kind. In fact, it the product doesn't even have to be shown in the advertisement. All that matters is the mood, the intangible, the emotion...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Change Your Existence | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...that issue, as on others, Gorbachev will be a more effective front man for Soviet policy than Chernenko was, or than other members of the Old Guard would be. In that respect, he will be a more formidable adversary. Insofar as he really does bring to the top level of the Soviet leadership more dynamism and pragmatism, he will put those qualities to work in the service primarily of competition, not conciliation. Yes, he is someone with whom the West can do business. But it is the same tedious, difficult, sometimes dangerous business as before--the business of managing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviets: Both Continuity and Vitality | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...National Council of Churches already in place, Manhattan seemed the ideal base for forward-looking church leaders. Now, for various reasons, four major denominations are simultaneously pondering whether to pull up stakes. The underlying trouble is not New York's reputation as Sin City--except insofar as liberalism is counted a sin. Churchgoers on Main Street are increasingly concerned that the left-of-center New York bureaucracies are out of step with heartland beliefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sin City Exit? | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

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