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...nation's capital. Robert Hughes' rantings about the Republican assault on the "arts" is more liberal drivel. To equate the pseudo art funded by the National Endowment for the Arts with Thomas Jefferson's library or the Lincoln Memorial shows clearly the inability of the left to discriminate between junk and true greatness. DOUG KLASSEN Tempe, Arizona AOL: Ferd94...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1995 | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

...Wall Street was not convinced. In addition to downgrading Orange County bonds to junk status last week, Moody's Investors Service called the county's behavior "outrageous and unprecedented." Says Zane Mann, publisher of the California Municipal Bond Advisor: "People are saying, 'Screw them. I'll never buy another Orange County bond as long as I live.'" This anger has larger financial implications. An Orange County default could push up the interest rate on all munis, so that taxpayers everywhere would be forced to pay more to build a school or a road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MESS A L'ORANGE | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

...BACKWARD! THE AMERICAN soul killed music and movies when it abandoned the Good, the True and the Beautiful as ideals. There is enough guilt to go around. Artists, producers, publishers, liberals, conservatives, politicians and businessmen are all guilty, but mostly it is the populace. We want the junk. Nyal Williams Muncie, Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1995 | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

...ourselves today, and for the trends of our progress and regression. It should provide us with pause for some careful examination of the state of the world and of how we might do better. A new sense of compassion and unflinching rejection of the trappings of a decadent mass junk culture are thing we should be preaching and pursuing. Educated people learn from their misfortunes and mistakes; they read and interpret the world around them and try actively to change it for the better...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Harvard's Annus Horribilis | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...label should work just as the signs do that millions of Americans post prominently in the windows of their homes and businesses, letting children know these places are safe refuges. The programming label would indicate that the program's primary purpose is to educate, not to sell toys or junk food, and that it is safe; that there is a friend in the house instead of a stranger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAKING TELEVISION SAFE FOR KIDS | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

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