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Burger brushed aside dissenting attempts to "sound the alarm of repression." Actually, he said, "to equate the free and robust exchange of ideas and political debate with commercial exploitation of obscene material demeans . . . the First Amendment and its high purposes in the historic struggle for freedom." Courts can distinguish between ideas and exploitation. "One can concede that the 'sexual revolution' of recent years may have had useful byproducts in striking layers of prudery from a subject long irrationally kept from needed ventilation." But that should not prevent "regulation of patently offensive 'hardcore' materials...
...been too much disclosure, that is partly because the implicated men and their lawyers are struggling through a case of unprecedented nature, partly because prosecutors now may want to avoid any appearance of a coverup. Moreover, the First Amendment has made the U.S. press as uncontrollable as it is robust. "The hearings may not make Cox's job any easier," says Georgetown University Law Center Dean Adrian Fisher, "but it is a situation he can live with...
...Blue is a quirkish, laid-back, jolly film, rich in resonance, full of scrupulously affectionate detail for a West that changed too fast and too often ever to be called "Old." It is a wry paean to a life of crime, and displays a robust contempt for law, order and the encroachments of civilization. Bickford, as dexterously played by Hopper, shows signs occasionally of becoming a kind of surrogate James Dean, a prairie rebel without a cause. Hopper started working in films about the same time as Dean (they appeared together in Rebel Without a Cause), and in rather...
...Danish-born heldentenor (heroic tenor). For 24 seasons (1926-50) at the Met, it was impossible to imagine Wagner without "the Great Dane." He sang in more than 1,000 Wagnerian performances-more than three times the total of any other singer-with no hint of diminution of the robust tenor that could swoop from a splendorous high to a deep, resonant...
...been trying to prove to his countrymen not only that they never had it so good, but also that the best is yet to come. A soon-to-be-released study commissioned by the Elysée Palace two years ago limns an intoxicating future. France's robust 6% rate of growth will continue, argues the report by the European branch of Futurologist Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute, meaning that by 1985 the country could well capture West Germany's place as the world's fourth strongest economic power (after the U.S., the Soviet Union...