This is the first Firing Line in a new format: it runs half an hour instead of an

hour, and, instead of an examiner called in somewhere past the midpoint of the show,

there is a moderator, as in the Firing Line debates, who starts things off. As it happens,

each of these guests is something of a Johnny One-Note (Mrs. Gore: "We have to show

that we respect the First Amendment and artists' rights ... but at the same time be

sensitive to young children." Mr. Simmons: "The record industry ... would love to get

rid of [heavy metal].... Why worry about it?"), but Mr. Buckley is on top form: "To

whip up community sentiment, whether it's against acid rain or against child abuse, is a

legitimate function of social invigoration, and to suggest that because you might stumble

into something that was intended to be artistic is to ask for a kind of protection that you

can't legitimately hope for."