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...many warheads as the West. That's not good enough. The most conservative president of this century, it turns out, is no more than a "useful idiot for Kremlin propaganda," according to the head of the Conservative Caucus, one of the president's earliest and (until now) most ardent supporters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gorby Fever | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

There are also more than enough works of the Impressionists to satisfy their most ardent fans Renoir, Degas. Manet--the Fogg has works by the whole lot. That is to say nothing of Rembrandt and the other Flemish hordes. some great modern painters and lots of wonderfully gruesome religious art. You can even go and gaze adoringly at Picassos should you wish to do so. Whatever your tastes the Fogg can cater to them; sumptuous nudes or tully draped Madonnas, tranquil still-lives or colorful battle scenes, sculpture or painting, ancient or modern, whatever takes your fancy...

Author: By Ellen J. Harvey, | Title: Foggy Days In Cambridge Town | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...could the most ardent foe of abortion have written Ginsburg off merely for marrying a doctor who performed the procedure a few times before deciding to stop. Similarly, Ginsburg's investment in a cable-television company while he served in the Justice Department was not illegal. By themselves, these incidents could have been shrugged off. Yet taken together, they hardly painted a portrait of the solid, well-grounded individual the public would normally expect on the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sins of The Past | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...have her father's surname, Christopher DeMuth, president of the American Enterprise Institute and an old friend of Ginsburg's, told the New York Times, "It is a modern marriage taken to the ultimate."Could Douglas Ginsburg, to the horror of some conservatives, turn out to be an ardent feminist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: If At First You Don't Succeed . . . | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...which the Republicans are tugged by their own special interests: right-wing red hots. Front Runners Bush and Robert Dole found themselves pitted against a field of yapping underdogs, each catering to causes championed by conservative activists. Haig, du Pont, Jack Kemp and Pat Robertson all blasted Bush's ardent support for the proposed medium-range missile treaty; this attempt to score points by implying that Ronald Reagan may be soft on the Soviets showed * the strong pull exerted by the party's right wing. The conservative tide was so fierce that at one point Dole felt compelled to declare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Yapping From The Right | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

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