Word: shows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have had no idea that drugs were on board. "Say my kids go out and one of their friends leaves a roach in the ashtray," says Joseph McNamara, chief of the San Jose police department. "How would I know?" Federal agencies often return property when owners can show they knew nothing about the drugs involved, but they are not obliged to. And the rules that govern agency hearings are different from those that prevail in a courtroom: it is up to the accused to prove their innocence. "We have a rule in American jurisprudence that the penalty fits the crime...
Whether it is inspired or insane, drug legalization has become the idea of the moment. That in itself shows the intensity of the national frenzy that has erupted once again to do something -- anything -- about drugs and related crime. Polls show drugs emerging as the hottest issue in the presidential election. In a New York Times-CBS News survey last week, 16% of those questioned called drugs the nation's No. 1 problem. It has direct political consequences: respondents thought Democrats would do a better job than the Administration in fighting drugs. They favored Michael Dukakis over George Bush, reinforcing...
...sexuality) not known in the American narrative art of his forebears in the '30s. At his best he seems, roughly, a cross between Edward Hopper and the Philip Roth of Portnoy's Complaint. Thus it seems just right that Roth has written a catalog introduction to Fischl's current show in Manhattan, six paintings on view at the Mary Boone Gallery through June...
...body. He has managed to reconstruct at least some of his birthright; his figures, though they inhabit a wildly different sexual and psychic world from that of late-19th century America, have a direct matter-of-factness that reminds one of Winslow Homer. But the signs of loss do show...
...cable landscape was littered with expensive flops (CBS Cable; the Satellite News Channel). Today cable networks whose survival once seemed dubious -- from the tony Arts & Entertainment Network to the drony Weather Channel -- have become permanent fixtures. New program services, meanwhile, keep springing up. Among the coming attractions: Show Business Today, a channel of around-the-clock entertainment news, slated to start in January; and a revamped version of Tempo Television, which NBC is planning to buy and reprogram with financial news during the day and sports at night and on weekends...