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...census forms, and this year's tax-evasion gap is expected to exceed $100 billion for the first time ever. Faced with the largest financial fiasco in U.S. history -- a savings and loan bailout that could cost up to half a trillion dollars -- American taxpayers have barely uttered a peep. "People don't feel any sense of ownership over the Federal Government," says Democratic pollster Geoffrey Garin. "It isn't them, and it isn't theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Is A Populist Revolt at Hand? HE POLITICS OF RICH AND POOR | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...well as anyone in Washington how strong the know-nothing streak in America is and how to focus its rancor -- which is, in essence, what he has done with the National Endowment for the Arts. Only this can explain why thousands of people who don't utter a peep when the President pulls billions from their wallets to bail out crooks and incompetents in the savings and loan industry start baying for the abolition of an agency that indirectly gave $30,000 to a now dead photographer. When Robert Mapplethorpe, that much overrated lensman, posed with a bullwhip stuck like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Art Is It, Anyway? | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...been little protest against the hard- shell moral conservatism that has dominated Cincinnati for 30 years. The Queen City was a spawning ground for the national antiabortion movement and is the headquarters for the National Coalition Against Pornography. It has managed to purge from its streets the sex shops, peep shows, X-rated films and nude-dancing clubs that mar many major cities. Cincinnati has banned or otherwise hounded out of town the musical Oh! Calcutta! and such films as Vixen, Last Tango in Paris and The Last Temptation of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eruptions in The Heartland: BATTLING BLUENOSES | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...Puttin' on the Ritz twists and turns back on itself like a stutter-stepping snake. Nor did Berlin, who wrote his own words, generally show Cole Porter's kind of cleverness, although he could put some English on a homely sentiment in a song like Lazy (1924): "I wanna peep through the deep/ Tangled wildwood,/ Counting sheep/ 'Til I sleep/ Like a child would./ With a great big valise full of books to read where it's peaceful/ While I'm killing time being lazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: America's Master Songwriter :Irving Berlin: 1888-1989 | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...gather evidence and make more arrests, Hurlbut browses through rows of Hefty Mamas, Leg Show, Bizarre Fantasies and other beckoning titles with the indifference of a hardened vice cop. "Victimless crime -- crap," he whispers. "Follow me." The white-haired Hurlbut eases his 225- lb. frame through an entrance marked PEEP SHOWS and into a darkened warren of viewing rooms. In each of the empty plywood cubicles, VCRs still hum, and the trappings of recent sexual activity abound. "The average guy has no idea what scumbags these places are," he snaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vanquishing Vice | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

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