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...years, the rating board's chief arbiter of explosives and orifices was Richard Heffner, routinely described as one of Hollywood's most powerful men because the Stones and Scorseses had to tailor their visions to his stern standards. He recently retired from the job and was succeeded by Richard Mosk, 55, a prominent Los Angeles lawyer whose father is a justice of the California Supreme Court. This month Mosk's rating board slapped two Miramax films with an NC-17. On the basis of these decisions, the Heffner era may soon be regarded as an age of enlightenment...
...just as others need tranquilizers or insulin. But surely an epidemic of attention deficit disorder is a warning to us all. Children need individual supervision. Many of them need more structure than the average helter-skelter household provides. They need a more consistent approach to discipline and schools that tailor teaching to their individual learning styles. Adults too could use a society that's more flexible in its expectations, more accommodating to differences. Most of all, we all need to slow down. And pay attention...
Derided and often dismissed as a buffoon, Vladimir Zhirinovsky knows how to tailor his image to different audiences. During a dinner with TIME editors at Moscow's Metropole Hotel, Zhirinovsky repeatedly insisted that he was a "moderate" and that his more extreme statements were intended only to call his countrymen's attention to Russia's dire condition...
...Blass and Geoffrey Beene; among newcomers, Han Feng and Byron Lars. Blass made some sense out of the current fad for bright colors by working in wools that were vibrant, with pretty, harmonious dyes. He used tweeds and wool jersey with an ease and fluency that mark a seasoned tailor. Beene also favored wool jersey, which he considers "the perfect material." His outfits, which came in all lengths, had the homely virtue of actually looking like winter clothes, garments that would keep the wearer warm in a bad winter. Beyond that, they had a timeless elegance that would make most...
...making our own tailor made molecules to see pathways, and even to control and regulate them," says Schreiber...