Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Covering the latest round of Palestinian unrest has proved both challenging and painful for everyone in the Jerusalem bureau. "The battle for freedom of the press has been one of the most anguishing parts of the story," says Reporter Robert Slater, who is also head of the Foreign Press Association in Israel. The plight of the nervous young Israeli soldiers who have been sent into the camps to quell the disturbances is another. "I know exactly how they feel," says Reporter Ron Ben-Yishai, a military-affairs expert, who serves in the Israeli army. "Very often I experience a strong...
...prime-time network TV, invaded Broadway with musicals (A Chorus Line, Pirates of Penzance, Drood), introduced new playwrights and plays from David Rabe (Streamers, about Viet Nam) to Keith Reddin (Rum and Coke, about the Bay of Pigs invasion) and provided stage-acting challenges for Hollywood stars including Robert De Niro and William Hurt...
...Robert Bork, the battle may be over, but the war goes on. The White House announced that President Reagan's controversial Supreme Court nominee would step down from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. In his resignation letter, Bork stated that he wants the time and freedom to rebut charges of right-wing zealotry that liberal lobbying groups fired at him last year during his unsuccessful Senate confirmation fight. "This was a public campaign of miseducation," wrote Bork, "to which, as a sitting federal judge, I felt I could not publicly respond...
...still hungry. Last year Cineplex Odeon expanded into distributing such films as Prince's Sign o' the Times and Paul Newman's The Glass Menagerie. A TV production arm will make 41 episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The company's Northfork division will finance five films produced by Robert Redford. In partnership with MCA Inc., which owns 49% of Cineplex Odeon, Drabinsky will help run Universal's proposed Florida theme park. Hollywood, star struck by the 39- year-old whiz kid, is whispering that Drabinsky may succeed Sidney Sheinberg, another tough customer, as president and chief operating officer...
...case, Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, involved a publication called Spectrum, produced every few weeks by journalism students at Hazelwood East High School near St. Louis. In May 1983, Principal Robert Reynolds summarily ordered two articles deleted from the paper. One featured the experiences of three Hazelwood students who had become pregnant; the second dealt with the impact of parental divorce on students. Though the girls in the first piece were given pseudonyms, Reynolds believed that they were identifiable, that the article was too frank for younger students and that its overall picture of teenage pregnancy was too positive (sample...