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...Health. Most distressed have been the volunteers who operate France's suicide-rescue organizations, like Search and Encounter, which provide counseling. "We are absolutely terrified by the book," said an official of Search. "It's criminal. It goes against all our efforts. We're about rebirth. Their message is to flee from life...
According to Taylor's postmortem, TEC was caught in the crossfire between HBO, owned by Time Inc., with its 11 million subscribers, and Viacom International Inc.'s Showtime, with 4 million. Taylor predicted a rebirth for TEC in another form, however. He is planning to launch a scaled-down, advertiser-supported channel under the same name late this spring. It will seek a broader audience with fare including Hollywood classics and short-lived TV series from seasons past. RCA and RCI have not decided whether to back the new venture. It would be a gamble...
What this says about human nature is that one cannot escape his own knowledge; he cannot be baptized innocent on a moment's notice; nor may he be born again whenever difficulties make rebirth convenient. What this says about the comprehensiveness of reality is more far-reaching. "We are not prepared to attach any importance to these statements [of self-exoneration]," wrote the commissioners, adding, "and not necessarily due to the fact the this evaluation was refuted by reality"-that is, by the reality of the massacre. In other words, the commission saw an other, deeper reality...
During the recovery from the last serious postwar recession of 1973-75, economic growth eventually gave way, beginning in early 1978, to a rebirth of high inflation. Then the Federal Reserve began to tighten up on credit to cool off the economy and bring inflation to heel. Yet making money scarce automatically makes it more costly, thus pushing interest rates up and sending bond prices skidding...
...main event of the past two or three years, so far as the New York art world is concerned, has been the "rebirth" of European art-mainly young, German and Italian, expressionist in mode and flirtatiously eclectic in tone. The spectrum of achievement runs from mere operators like Salome to deeply serious artists of the caliber of Anselm Kiefer. The fact that an American audience is paying attention to European painting once more comes as a relief, but before attention gets wholly stylized as fashion, it is worth remembering that England is part of Europe and that some English painters...