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...intention to fine Los Angeles' KSLX-FM $105,000 for broadcasting his "indecent" material. (At the same time, three other stations were fined a total of $6,000 for airing an earlier Stern program.) A long list of Stern offenses were cited, ranging from lewd comments about Pee-wee Herman's self-abuse to gross sexual insults aimed at Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps, his chief L.A. rivals. ("First I want to just strip and rape Mark and Brian. I want my two bitches laying there in the cold, naked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shock Jock | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...wide, we should be thankful that we have as much as we do to responsibly spend in improving undergraduate life. Those who scoff at the council's job of dispersing funds are mocking one of the most difficult tasks an undergraduate can attempt. Many council members work into the wee hours of the night with no compensation save a commitment to their constituents and the satisfaction of a job well done. Think of how many clubs and organizations on campus would be extant if not for the council's grants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Give Us a Chance | 11/4/1992 | See Source »

...name of class war, but for the sake of drugs, money and kicks. In the U.S. violence has shifted from premeditaion to simple brutality: one in which the randomness of it all makes everyone a possible victim and a possible assailant. Sit in the Tasty in the wee hours of the morning, and watch assembled oddballs stagger in, argue and stumble out. Their mere presence, as drugged or drunk uncertainties, conjures up the worst fears of anger, assault and guns...

Author: By Tony Gubba, | Title: Being Afraid | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

...students." Beyond that, Keri's success or failure depends largely on himself. ( "Getting out of ((the ghetto)) depends on Keri," the teacher says. "But Keri has to realize that, unfortunately, because he's black, because he came out of this neighborhood, he's going to have to work a wee bit more, a wee bit harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Out, Then and Now | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...presence would have set up a handy symbolic resonance. Tony Bennett, one of the supreme purveyors of popular song, here assembles 24 tunes associated with, and made popular by, Sinatra, ory days: the big-band beginnings, the series of alternately bleak ) and swinging LPs like In the Wee Small Hours and A Swingin' Affair -- concept albums before anyone had cooked up the phrase -- that carried Sinatra triumphantly through the 1950s to the pinnacle of his craft. Bennett, at this time, was enjoying significant success on his own, and though his celebrity missed the mythic dimension of Sinatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pair Of Kings | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

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