Word: speaker
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...speaker -- at nonstop, sewing-machine speed -- is Camille Paglia, contrarian academic and feminist bete noire, and her 1990 book, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale University Press), is the most explosive tome to emerge from academe in quite some time. The book is about many things -- paganism, pop culture, androgyny, sexual conflicts -- but what has drawn the media with magnetic force is the author's contempt for modern feminists. Paglia writes with freshness and blithe arrogance, and she does not hesitate to hurl brazen insults. She accuses author Germaine Greer, for example, of becoming...
When Brown attacked the Senate for staying up until midnight to discuss the Savings and Loan bailout and asked why they couldn't do the same to discuss full funding for Headstart, his listeners agreed. Like no speaker I had seen before, Jerry Brown spoke to his audience, and his audience heard...
These shots heard, and seen, around the world appeared under the aegis of the first global TV news company, Cable News Network. Contrary to the dictum of former U.S. House Speaker Tip O'Neill that "all politics is local," CNN demonstrated that politics can be planetary, that ordinary people can take a deep interest in events remote from them in every way -- and can respond to reportage in global rather than purely nationalistic terms...
Political bribery is another ripe area of investigation. In Georgia last week Governor Zell Miller and house speaker Tom Murphy testified before a federal grand jury probing reports of payoffs to legislators for passing a law enabling First American to buy the National Bank of Georgia when both banks were controlled by B.C.C.I. A report of those alleged bribes originally came into the hands of the CIA in 1986, according to TIME sources...
...accommodationists, previous Supreme Court decisions appear to be sending the message that religion is acceptable so long as it is not too public. It is a strange definition of free speech and religious liberty, they note, that prohibits mention of God. "Angela Davis, a communist, was the speaker at my son's high school graduation," says Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson. "People have to listen to the most heavy-handed dogmatism. Then suddenly the Constitution is violated if an agnostic hears the word God. This is absurd. If we have to put up with things we don't agree with...