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Those events last week may have been signs that reporters are beginning to flex their muscles after a relatively sedate primary season. But they also reflected an age-old controversy over who controls the flow of news. Politicians, particularly during campaigns, structure their schedules to communicate carefully chosen messages. Reporters rightly insist on making their own judgments about news rather than merely being conduits for what politicians want publicized...
From Tucson's modest Southside Presbyterian Church to New York City's towering Riverside Church, more than 150 congregations across the country are currently defying federal law by appealing to a higher authority. All of them are offering what they consider the "age-old" right of sanctuary to illegal Central American refugees. This growing national ecumenical network, which objects to U.S. policy in Central America but justifies its own actions on humanitarian grounds, is triggering what may become a serious confrontation between church and state...
...intent on correcting many negative stereotypes about unions. They insist that most are democratically run, and that there is probably less crime and corruption in the labor movement than in the business world. But they do not expect their statistic-packed book to settle any arguments. Write the authors: "Age-old debates do not often end with a bang, even with computerized evidence." -By John Greenwald
...remarks about them were sensible and funny enough to survive. He looked askance at the woman who had given her account of the courtship of Joseph and the Virgin Mary: "It is difficult to know what, if anything, she had in mind when she decided to tell the Age-Old Story with nothing new to add." He deplored Trevanian's habit, in The Eiger Sanction, of hauling such celebrities as the Burtons and Jackie Onassis into the action: "There is nothing wrong with this if you have a point to make about them. But he has nothing...
Like Greystoke attempts at awakening new interest in Tarzan, The Bounty fails in its attempt to give a new perspective to the age-old tale of the mutiny on the Bounty. What results, unfortunately, is a disjointed series of scenes that interest us only for their beauty and spectacular cinematography while the plot gets lost along with the characters. But an epic needs a substantial drama to make it an epic, and by reducing the importance of the plot in The Bounty, the movie becomes a two-hour long montage of pretty pictures that would look better on postcards...