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The problem with having Chris more ably played is that his contradictions become apparent. He wants to whore around in Saigon, he wants to readopt the bourgeois values of home; he wants to marry Kim, he recoils at the thought; he wants to reunite with her, he wants to forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memories of A World on Fire | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

Damage is the story of one man's obsession that eventually destroys his family and his life. The main character, who remains unnamed, is a respectable English doctor and politician, ostensibly a good father and husband. His bourgeois bliss comes to an abrupt end when Anna Barton, the fiancee of...

Author: By Margaret H. Gleason, | Title: A Pretentious Yet Fluffy Beach Book | 4/5/1991 | See Source »

If any doubt remained that orthodoxy was fighting back, it was dispelled by the views aired at an angry Jan. 31 party plenum. Speeches by Central Committee members roundly knocked perestroika as a policy gone astray, attacked freedom of the press and condemned the Kremlin leadership's abandonment of Marxist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: The Empire Strikes Back | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

A day later, Gorbachev told the parliament that "thousands of telegrams" had arrived at the Kremlin, along with appeals from the Committee of National Salvation, demanding presidential rule be imposed in Lithuania to halt the restoration of "a bourgeois state." He even waved a document, allegedly found by the KGB...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: The Bad Old Days Again | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

This month The Nutcracker will swirl into cities all around the country. Even the plainest staging will boast Tchaikovsky's rapturous score, the party scene's gentle lesson in golden-rule manners and, for little girls, the chance to dress up in winter finery. The New York City Ballet will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 10, 1990 | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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