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...Levin's diary as evidence, characterizing it as a chronicle of her "kinky and aggressive" sex life. After reading the diary privately, the presiding judge ruled that it contained no information relevant to the defendant's case. By that time, however, Levin's character had been impugned and the anguish of her family amply replenished. Her grief-stricken father has appeared in court wearing a JUSTICE FOR JENNIFER button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Whose Trial Is It Anyway? | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...truth. Voters need to be able to trust candidates and Presidents, not take comfort in their successful marriages. In the past, candidates didn't feel so obliged to drag wives and husbands and kids onto the platform. Now it's become obligatory. And sometimes it leads to great anguish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Life, Public Office | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

Marcel Ophuls' biting documentary, "The Sorrow and the Pity," probed deeply into the national anguish over wartime shame, but it was kept off the state-run television networks for a decade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Trial of Barbie to Begin Today | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

Once he regains his sanity, the twice-dishonored Aias considers suicide, despite the pleas of his wife Tekmessa (Jenny Bader) and his sailors, who form the traditional chorus. Bader is a delight as she reveals the long-hidden pleasures of screaming in anguish, but the chorus are a mixed lot. The women sailors ("Oh, no!" cries my friend the purist) tend to chew the scenery; the men are wooden. All seem incongruous, with their Japanese baseball uniform-style costumes and their song-and-dance routines. My friend the purist says that there would have been music and dancing...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Aias | 5/6/1987 | See Source »

...long-running soap opera that played on all the networks. The ubiquitous male lead was regularly humiliated (Who can forget the Checkers episode in 1952 or the "last press conference" in 1962?), but he always bounced back, a new Nixon, ready for another crisis that would again display his anguish before a dumbfounded public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor Richard's Almanac | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

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