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...BERNARD SHAW: THE SEARCH FOR LOVE by Michael Holroyd (Random House; $24.95). The first of a projected three-volume life takes its brilliant, cantankerous subject to age 42, through journalism -- and love affairs -- to playwriting and toward his towering reputation...
...First Lady's acquisitions may have put the Reagans in Dutch with the Internal Revenue Service. Tax experts consulted by TIME, including former Internal Revenue Service commissioner Sheldon Cohen and Harvard Law professor Bernard Wolfman, unanimously agree that gifts or loans of clothing to Mrs. Reagan represent taxable income when the donors benefit from her display of their creations. A gift is not taxable only when it is given out of "detached and disinterested generosity." The designers who loaned or gave the outfits, some valued at more than $20,000, were aware of the publicity they would receive...
Clockwise from above: A spectator takes a closer look. Regatta-goers pack Lars Anderson Bridge. Crew shells are stacked in preparation for the long trip home. Cambridge resident Julie Scholl, 9, talks to mounted police officer Ron Bernard and his horse Cheyenne. Spectators watch and cheer on a favorite boat. The Harvard men's varsity lightweight eights stroke toward the finish...
...question was in ghoulish taste, but it proved revealing. Moderator Bernard Shaw of CNN began the final presidential debate by demanding that Michael Dukakis reconcile his opposition to capital punishment with a macabre scenario in which his wife Kitty was raped and killed. Such a hypothesis justified almost any conceivable answer. Dukakis could have vented anger at the premise of the question or passionately explained his own feelings of outrage when his father was badly mugged. Such a response would have been a perfect way to introduce his view that the legal system is designed to temper human impulses...
...BERNARD SHAW: THE SEARCH FOR LOVE by Michael Holroyd (Random House; $24.95). The first of a projected three-volume life takes its brilliant, cantankerous + subject to age 42, through journalism -- and love affairs -- to playwriting and toward his towering reputation...