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Broadcasters, for their part, object that a ratings system mandated by the government threatens their free-speech rights. "A centralized rating system that is subject to review and approval by the government is totally inconsistent with the traditions of this country," says NBC general counsel Richard Cotton. "This legislation turns the fcc into Big Brother." Former CBS Broadcast Group president Howard Stringer argues, "The V chip is the thin end of a wedge. If you start putting chips in the television set to exclude things, it becomes an all-purpose hidden censor...
...which Picasso crosses media is evident in these drypoint and line-etching pieces. "The Watering-Place" (1905) is a small, lyrical piece, with its hyper-sparse and beautifully interwoven lines. The bold, thick black lines of "Goat Skull on Table" (1952) appear as if carved into a weighty physical object...
Surely there must be some mistake. "The chessmaster today must have courage, a killer instinct, stamina, and arrogance," chess grandmaster Larry Evans once said. Yet an object possessing none of these emotions can dominate the game...
...possibilities that do not occur. These skills might be useful in, say, business, government, science or life in general. If the federal government operated perfectly under these tenets, we might not even have a deficit. Chess does test some life skills, and we now have a computer, a lifeless object, that has mastered the game...
...Japan is that they exult in the perspective of a bewildered outsider, not quite sure whether to be excited or exasperated by the science-fictive surfaces of that alien world. The second is that they find a focus for their mingled fascination and frustration in an unfathomable Japanese love object. The gracious and redeeming delight of Audrey Hepburn's Neck (Pocket Books; 290 pages; $21), a first novel by Alan Brown, an American, is that it turns all the standard tropes--and expectations--on their head by presenting Japan from the inside out, and yet with a sympathetic freshness that...