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...hard to imagine a more unpopular cause than defending the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Attorneys for the Korean evangelist carried out a survey in 1982 and found that more than 75% of those questioned reacted negatively to Moon's name. He is widely thought of as a brainwasher and exploiter of American young people. Given this prejudice, officials of the Unification Church knew that they would need a lawyer with impeccable credentials to represent the self-proclaimed "Prophet of God" in an appeal of his 1982 conviction for filing false federal income tax returns. The advocate they eventually landed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Prophet's Unlikely Defender | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...that his parents owned at Montroig. Its white, cracked walls, dusty earth and heatstruck furrows-commemorated in lunar detail in The Farm, 1921-22-were the frame of an immense repertory of images that constituted the motifs of his art: hairs and plants, chickens and cats and snails, the moon and the dog howling at it, galumphing limbs and waggling genitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Last of the Forefathers | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...featured speaker, former Boston mayoral candidate Michael Gelber, uses his address to lay out a comprehensive plan to reduce unemployment through development of laser weapon stations on the moon. Bok is seen nodding thoughtfully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Year of the Wrap | 1/3/1984 | See Source »

Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon. After an unhappy marriage, a wanderer takes to the U.S. back roads to examine his country and his American Indian roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: THE BEST OF 1983: Books | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

...ruled China in 1090 had one empress, three consorts, nine spouses, 27 concubines and 81 assistant concubines, whose rotation of duty was exactly scheduled over the course of each fortnight so that the women of highest rank occupied the imperial bed on the nights closest to the full moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Pigeons and Concubines | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

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