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...prosecutors had everything in their favor: a law-and-order judge, a seemingly conservative jury and seven pieces of evidence that could not fail to shock and disgust. The defendants had only one thing on their side: the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But the verdict last week cleared Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center and its director, Dennis Barrie, of obscenity charges stemming from their exhibition of photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe...
...ROCK (ABC, debuting Sept. 26, 10 p.m. EDT). The police action is rough and raw, like Hill Street Blues. But when a courtroom jury, asked for its verdict, breaks into song, we know we're not in Kansas anymore. Steven Bochco's musical cop show is the fall's most audacious newcomer...
...regret that I had a hand in banning the book. We should have given readers an opportunity to reach their own verdict. By banning Doctor Zhivago we caused much harm to the Soviet Union. The intelligentsia abroad, including many who were not opposed to socialism, rose up against...
...neatly on the oak table in front of him. A dark suit and subdued tie reinforce the image of a stern military man, someone just as capable of offering an interrogator no more than name, rank and serial number as he is of impassively handing down a tribunal's verdict. Not even his eyes, hidden behind dark glasses, give anything away...
...epidemic of violence poses a tough question: Is David Dinkins up to the job? -- A legendary Florida pol runs for Governor with a quaintly populist message. -- Marion Barry's trial brings a divided verdict...