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...simplistic morality play, with TV as the bad guy in virtually every scene. Jack Barry, host of Twenty- One, rehearses to himself before the show like some hammy dinner-theater thespian. When the quiz shows come on, Average Joes troop home to their TV set like sheep to the slaughter (with those same emblematic '50s-family-glued-to- th e-TV shots that Stone uses in Natural Born Killers). Every TV executive is a cartoon villain, from sleazy Twenty-One producer Dan Enright to the Mephistophelian head of Geritol, the show's sponsor, to the smug network chief who sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Why Quiz Show Is a Scandal | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

Anne-Marie Slaughter, a 1985 cum laude graduate of the law school, has received a tenured position as professor of law. The two other women, Diane Ring and Christine Jolls, will be assistant professors and do not have tenure...

Author: By A. OMIYINKA Doris, | Title: 3 Women Join Law Faculty | 9/23/1994 | See Source »

...Slaughter came to the law school last year as a visiting professor. She chose the tenured position at Harvard over a tenure offer from the University of Chicago Law School...

Author: By A. OMIYINKA Doris, | Title: 3 Women Join Law Faculty | 9/23/1994 | See Source »

...public international law specialist, Slaughter will teach two international law classes this spring. "Harvard is the ideal place to do it because of the number of students and the interest in international studies," Slaughter told the Harvard Law Record...

Author: By A. OMIYINKA Doris, | Title: 3 Women Join Law Faculty | 9/23/1994 | See Source »

...grumbled that "instead of paying for kids to play basketball at 2 a.m., we should be building more prisons." Friends nodded furiously as Holian lambasted Clinton over the din of 500 shooters standing in a row 1.5 miles long and blasting away, part of a 10-day-long ritual slaughter of 4.5 million clay pigeons. The only thing thicker than the gunpowder that laced the air was the cynicism directed toward both Clinton and Congress. Said Bob Walden, 52, a retired supervisor: "It's not that I've lost faith in our nation's principles. It's just that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anger From the Grass Roots | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

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