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...reportedly known as the "Pope of Pot," high priest of the Church of the Realized Fantasy, whose ad hoc philosophy preaches the evil of money and the virtue of easy access to sex and drugs. For all Cesar's fulminations against hard cash, however, he certainly did not spurn it. Police say that, by Cesar's own estimate, the pot line netted $40,000 a day, enough for him to purchase a luxury Eastside Manhattan apartment and a mansion in New Jersey...
These races showed that, given a chance, disgusted voters would readily spurn both parties. But they were not eager to gamble on political unknowns: the winners were familiar former officeholders who had cast off their Republican labels to repackage themselves as independents. Same soap, new box. Connecticut's Lowell Weicker Jr., a three-term G.O.P. Senator who lost his seat in 1988, made a name for himself as a party maverick who battered Richard Nixon during Watergate and stood up to Ronald Reagan on contra aid, Star Wars and tax policy. With their state in a recession, Connecticut voters were...
Moviegoers, of course, don't pay for the cost of a movie. They are as likely to spurn a megamovie as they are to embrace a pinchpenny picture like Ninja Turtles. But for now, moguls are willing to believe that the VCR revolution has made the movie industry slump-proof; 1990 may not match last summer, but it should still be the second biggest-grossing summer ever. And viewers may dare to hope that amid the bigger bangs for bigger bucks, Hollywood doesn't forget how to make good movies...
Under the National Endowment for the Arts' new anti-obscenity restrictions, four artists are rejected. Some recipients spurn grants and criticize the endowment's leader...
Breaking his silence, the still unapprehended Honasan told TIME during a brief phone call, "We do not wish to spurn our friendship with the American people. But I believe it is morally wrong for Ambassador Platt to take sides because it will mean more bloodshed." Saving democracy may be its own reward, but for the U.S., this rescue could have long-term costs. Now that Washington has used force to prop up the Aquino regime, will anything less do the next time a threat arises...