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...ineradicable example. And a whole industry of pornographers takes the principle of tantalizing advertising to its logical conclusion: where an ad will use the bodies of women as bait to sell an unrelated product, a porn magazine trades directly in the female form itself. Once that form becomes an object to merchandise, it follows naturally that the promoters will seek ever more extreme ways to present the object: from titillation to abuse, from abuse to rape...
FINALLY, SOME OBJECT that attention from America will do no good for people in Ireland. Our president has referred to the country's grief as an internal British affair; he and every other politician in the country should be made to recognize the British presence in Ireland for the basic violation of human rights that it is. Americans can boycott British goods, following the lead of the American longshoreman, who refused for 24 hours to load or unload ships flying the Union Jack. They can make Ireland an issue in American politics, demanding that congressmen--especially Irish pols like...
...special issue on the Soviet Union (June 23, 1980), TIME won the Overseas Press Club Award for the best magazine interpretation of foreign affairs. Says National Editor John Elson, who was in charge of the project: "The object was to devote an entire issue to one subject that people actually knew very little about and at the same time to retain the newsmagazine approach." Before writing the main story, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott made his sixth visit to the U.S.S.R., becoming the first Western journalist to tour the Central Asian republics after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The bulk...
...object is to stop MOSA from making long-term bulk contracts with the military and the police," he said, adding, however, that the policing of sales by "every Mobil filling station" would be impossible and impractical...
...minutes before 10 a.m. Nearly 100 second-year students file into the amphitheater at the Harvard Business School. The desk tops are soon covered with notebooks, calculators, coffee cups, half-pint cartons of orange juice. This morning's object of study is Waffle House, Inc., a chain of 425 fast-food restaurants, roughly half of them franchised, that began in Georgia and spread across much of the Southeast. Like most examples in Harvard's celebrated case-study method, Waffle House does not simply present some problem to be solved. Instead, the goal here is to assess the critical...