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...Barrymore. "TIME's conception of human nature . . . and TIME's value judgments run through all the fields of endeavor and all the categories of human aspirations and speculations," he said on the magazine's 40th anniversary. That philosophy is now more compelling than ever. Important social issues like date rape, the deterioration of the environment and the troubles of America's educational system are news; so are advances in medicine and cultural phenomena. "When the movie Thelma & Louise came out, it struck a chord," notes Walter, "so it became news for us as well as a review...
...movies and TV programs, in sitcoms where teenage boys get laughs for seducing teenage girls, increased the number of rape incidents...
...pamphlet on date rape published by Swarthmore College says acquaintance rape "spans the spectrum of incidents and behavior ranging from crime legally defined as rape to verbal harassment and inappropriate innuendo." Isn't that going...
...Terrible. It minimizes the traumatic nature of a forced act of intercourse by equating it to something that may upset the person, but it's not nearly on the level with acquaintance rape. I've been on campuses lecturing when people called kisses that are forced on you rape, but it is not, and it does a terrible disservice to rape survivors...
...have a very generous husband. The office has come such a long way. In 1972 there were 18 convictions in sexual- assault cases in New York City's five counties, and now, I think, the five counties combined have several hundred successful convictions every year. Women can recover from rape, from the hopelessness and from the feeling that the guy will never be punished. Recovery is helped immensely by a conviction...