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TIME editors have grown accustomed to Bob's forceful opinions and iconoclastic ways. The magazine hired him in 1970, when he was a free-lance art critic living in London. Senior editor Christopher Porterfield, then our London bureau cultural correspondent, recalls that Hughes expressed two concerns about going to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Publisher: Feb. 3, 1992 | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

But Clinton can not be dismissed as a mere creation of journalistic fashion. Many Democrats did not need the media to tell them that their standard-bearer should be someone who cannot be attacked as a McGovernite liberal. Reporters on the early campaign trail have been struck by the number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Bill Clinton For Real? | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

For a Western world grown accustomed to drawing facile distinctions between villains and heroes as it witnessed one political convolution after another, Algeria's crisis posed a jarring dilemma: Which takes precedence -- democratic principles or geopolitical self-interest? The U.S. initially appeared to support the annulment of the election by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Africa A Prelude to Civil War? | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

Still, nobody can match Le Pen in playing on the resentment of petits blancs (poor whites) toward the immigrants. Now he is appealing to other kinds of discontent. He is making a strong pitch to farmers worried that European integration will strip away their accustomed subsidies, and is even putting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Surge to The Right | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

One of the main reasons for the MIA industry's persistence was the government's initially sluggish effort to get to the bottom of the mystery. For years, the Pentagon turned over the question of missing Americans to defense-intelligence agencies more accustomed to concealing secret information than to guiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mia Industry Bad Dream Factory | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

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