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Dates: during 1990-1999
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America is also on Japan's mind and stays there even after a Japanese outgrows blue jeans. American books, both pop and profound, can at times sell more in Japanese translation than back home in English. News is often seen through an American prism. Trends and movements sweep across the Pacific from America and take root. In Japan these days many people prefer whale watching to whale eating: environmentalism has arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America in the Mind of Japan | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...vision for a new global order. Bush's sense of the hierarchy of nations is still shaped by the habits of the cold war -- otherwise why did he wait three years to make a state visit to Japan? In contrast, the Democratic contenders primarily view the world through the prism of economics, and here Japan far outranks Boris Yeltsin's Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Bashing on the Campaign Trail | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...political savants who have been denouncing this zippy melodrama hadn't already existed, Oliver Stone might have invented them, because they fulfill his one-size-fits-all conspiracy theory. Hyper down, pundits! Don't deny Stone the right due any artist: to interpret history through his own prism. And give moviegoers the chance to make up their own minds about who shot President Kennedy. The only thing that Stone's dazzling assemblage of political-science fiction attempts to assassinate is complacency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...political savants who have been denouncing this zippy melodrama hadn't already existed, Oliver Stone might have invented them, because they fulfill his one-size-fits-all conspiracy theory. Hyper down, pundits! Don't deny Stone the right due any artist: to interpret history through his own prism. And give moviegoers the chance to make up their own minds about who shot President Kennedy. The only thing that Stone's dazzling assemblage of political-science fiction attempts to assassinate is complacency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991:Cinema | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...seems to be rooted in general resentment of U.S. power and influence. The network is often labeled as the latest example of U.S. cultural imperialism. Longtime French TV news correspondent Christine Ockrent calls CNN "a U.S. channel with a global vocation, but which sees the world through an American prism." She is dismissive of its most widely discussed experiment, the weekly World Report, which airs unedited stories taken from TV channels around the world. Says Ockrent: "Asking Serbian television for its reading of the situation is not providing world news but merely the Serbian version. When CNN's footage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History As It Happens | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

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