Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shroud to the point at which they meet in the center, the images get increasingly indistinguishable. The curator's notes claim this is a statement on "gender". To apply such a clinical, stalely academic categorization as the term "gender" to such a luminous, sensually affecting, eerie work is to limit its importance. With "The Veiling" as with "The Hall of Whispers," it becomes clear that the genius in Viola's works are in his vision, not his voice. Even the trite titles of the installations show that his strength is less in his verbal "messages" than in his manipulation...
WASHINGTON: Does Bob Dole care about kids getting addicted to cigarettes? According to a new television ad campaign launched by the Clinton camp on Monday, Dole "opposes an FDA limit on tobacco ads that appeal to children." But the Dole campaign begs to differ: while Dole opposes smoking ads that might encourage kids to smoke, he prefers to let states set their own bans, according to Dole press secretary Nelson Warfield. "This has less to do with what Dole really believes than it does with Dole's character," says TIME's Eric Pooley. "You have to put up with...
...Justices agreed. It would be unconstitutional, they declared unanimously, for the law to limit a trial judge's discretion to reduce a three-strike sentence "in furtherance of justice." Prosecutors are allowed to plea-bargain under the law--and so, if they choose, disregard prior convictions. If judges were not allowed to do likewise, the balance of power among the legislative, executive and judicial branches would be skewed. "The legal system has long recognized that rigid application of the law can produce injustice," said Paul Boland, president of the California Judges Association, applauding the ruling. Many...
...reason the public is cynical about government is the belief that money buys influence in proportion to the gift. And no type of campaign giving is larger than so-called soft money, which flows without limit from labor unions, corporations and wealthy individuals to the national parties. Direct gifts to candidates, called hard money, is strictly limited ($1,000 per candidate per election from individuals). But soft money, which goes to the parties, can be given with abandon. Insiders like to say, "It's soft because it isn't hard...
...candidate who is benefiting most from this soft cascade is Republican-nominee-to-be Bob Dole. His campaign has reached the legal limit of what it can raise itself before the convention, and the Democratic Party is doing its best to take advantage of this. Last week it filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission charging Dole's operation with violations of spending restrictions. But as Dole's operatives know, there is no need to break any laws to lubricate a cash-dry campaign. There is always soft money...