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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Murdoch arrived in New York by way of London, already schooled in scandal. In Britain he owns the backstairs-gossip weekly News of the World, with the largest circulation of any English-language paper in the world, and the lurid London Sun, which pictures a topless young woman on Page 3 every day. After snubbing Murdoch for years, the British establishment seven years ago had to send for him to keep one of its most prestigious papers, the Times of London, from going under. At some cost to its independence, character and authority, he succeeded. He did so by overcoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: A Disdain for Respectability | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Obviously, the printed page, the linear medium, divorces information from time: one can go back and reread and think more and read again, because the words are frozen upon the page and therefore have a sort of timeless status. TV rushes headlong through real time, and given the constrictions of schedule, it is often a second-rate instrument with which to pursue the truth. The written word can commit the profoundest treacheries with the truth, but the hope of writing is at least to preserve the active integrity of the brain that is receiving the words. Television, flowing into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Kingdom of Television | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...show to have a cast where every actor and actress could have held the lead roles, but every last company member is wonderful. Les Miserables is definitely worth seeing--especially if you're not a French Lit major and you don't plan on reading Hugo's 1300-page original...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Les Magnifiques | 2/5/1988 | See Source »

...page indictment includes racketeering and other drug-related charges, the sources said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noriega Indicted on Drug Charges | 2/5/1988 | See Source »

This complaint may become a thing of the past, because College officials have decided to schedule next fall's registration on the Friday before classes start. (See story page...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Harvard Hazards: Red Dots, Green Dots... | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

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