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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Russians is part of a genre of hastily published accounts--like Harrison Salisbury's book on the Tiananmen massacre and more recent offerings on the fall of the Berlin wall--which try to appear timely while generalizing enough to keep themselves on bookstore shelves for more than a few weeks...
Perhaps MTV finds Madonna's graphic images disturbing. Perhaps MTV finds Madonna's themes immoral. But the list of creative geniuses who have used graphic images and controversial themes in their art includes just about every creative genius. If MTV wants concerned parents to be able to keep their children away from Madonna's videos, warning labels and late air times are perfectly appropriate. An all-encompassing ban only suppresses originality, discouraging artistic exploration...
...American hands. To reduce its $11 billion debt load, Time Warner is looking abroad for partners to take minority stakes in some of its entertainment subsidiaries. "We agree with Matsushita's concept ((of globalization)), but we disagree % with the execution," says Time Warner chairman Steven Ross. "Parent companies should keep their national identities...
...time when the Pentagon is striving to keep troop locations in the gulf secret, private satellite photos of the area are hitting the open market in increasing numbers. The three companies that dominate the trade have refused to sell pictures to Iraq since the Kuwait invasion. But U.S. intelligence sources confirm that Iraq has obtained detailed space photos. They believe the images were funneled through Jordan and Iran...
...long as it emphasizes the sweep of history, this encyclopedia has dignity and flair. When it tries to keep up with current events, the book often resembles a hardbound USA Today. An untroubled Donald Trump appears, along with Wayne Gretzky, Jimmy Breslin and Oprah Winfrey. Parapsychology and the occult are given two massively illustrated layouts; the Holocaust merits less than half a page. In the section on American writers, James Baldwin stares out from a large color portrait, while Mark Twain is granted a small black-and- white snapshot, and Henry James is not seen at all, though oddly enough...