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While Cole may lack insight into the deeper causes and effects of the Vietnam War and its ramifications. Medal of Honor Rag intriguingly explores one aspect of the monster. This endlessly resurfacing theme makes it clear that the beast is still gnawing at America's innards...

Author: By Brian M. Sands, | Title: Variation on a Theme | 3/25/1983 | See Source »

...disingenuously, "I am only trying to protect my people and therefore do good for my country." The sharp-tongued Eddison Zvobgo, a minister in the Mugabe government, says Nkomo's real trouble is that he suffers from "power-denial psychosis." An Ndebele proverb puts it another way: "The beast is without power." Against the strong political base of Mugabe and the might of his army, Nkomo has little leverage except perhaps the capacity to plunge his country into civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe: Flight Canceled | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...will beast them before I graduate." Trout said after the game. "They're going to be graduating a lot of people [this year]," the Crimson junior explained...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Down Harvard Ninth Straight Time Penn Withstands Cagers' Pressure | 2/26/1983 | See Source »

...week, have adopted so-called Son of Sam laws, named for Multiple Murderer David Berkowitz, which lock up proceeds from books and other ventures to satisfy claims by victims or their survivors. One such moneyed killer is Jack Henry Abbott, author of the prison memoir In the Belly the Beast, who stabbed an aspiring actor to death in New York City in 1981. The widow, Ricci Adan, is using New York's Son of Sam law as one basis for getting damages from Abbott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Getting Status and Getting Even | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

...last year with A Bloodsmoor Romance, a lengthy parody of 19th century genteel genre writing. Sample: "Having no capability, and, indeed, no desire, so far as graphic descriptions of 'love embraces' are concerned, I shall make no attempt to sketch for the repelled reader precisely how The Beast (sexual desire) emerged to make a loathsome mockery of the love declarations, kisses, caresses, and other amorous indulgences which transpired between Malvinia and Mr. Twain, in Malvinia's sumptuously appointed bedchamber." Gates, 44, outdistanced feminism long before it was fashionable to do so, taking her themes from headlines. Them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Postfeminism: Playing for Keeps | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

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