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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...First Amendment discussion usually begins in this country, namely who owns the paper, it seems clear that the St. Louis, Missouri School Board was the owner. It created the paper with the intention that the principal of the high school would have authority of pre-publication review. In short, he was to serve as proxy for the school board, making sure that the newspaper did not become a forum for views contrary to the interests of the School Board, which provided 80 percent of the funding for the paper. The students carried editors' titles, but the principal seemed to have...
Television gets high marks for inclusiveness, with few notable omissions (cable gets short shrift, and commercials are mentioned only in passing). Organization, however, is a problem; too often it seems arbitrary or wrongheaded. An episode about TV drama contains no mention of Roots, the highest-rated mini-series in history; it shows up later in a section on TV and race. ABC's decision to pair Howard Cosell with Don Meredith on Monday Night Football is examined for several minutes in the opening program, yet Sesame Street, possibly TV's single most important contribution to American society, is tucked into...
Just then, a visitor walks in, a chubby man with the kind of short, wire- brush haircut that has been out so long it is back in again in certain regions of New York City and Los Angeles. He is Ray Judd, a colleague from the days when the concrete business was populated by honorable men. "Ray had a place up near Luray, but we didn't used to compete," Harper reminisces. "We even traded molds. Nowadays the competition won't even tell you where they buy theirs. I think it's time to get out of this business...
Good Morning, Vietnam is not a bad film, but it's one that falls far short of what its premise and cast might have produced. Unless you're a real die-hard Williams fan, my advice is: pull...
Anyone who was on hand for Williams' stand up performance at the Lampoon Comedy Night two years ago will be well aware that his manic comedic talents are nothing short of inspired. In front of an audience the quiet, mild-mannered Williams of private life becomes transfigured into a comic dervish, wildly improvising on audience suggestions in a combination of ultra-free association and vocal impersonation that works quicker than the eye can catch...