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Holleran's collection of essays and Paul Monette's memoir of his dying lover, Borrowed Time (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 342 pages; $18.95), are reports from the combat zone. They are far more personalized than Randy Shilts' And the Band Played On (1987), a survey of the medical, political and social impact of AIDS. Holleran and Monette stand waist-deep in the wreckage of homosexual society, particularly that mayfly culture that soared during the '70s and plunged abruptly when the virus struck hard at the beginning...
This week a Dirty Dancing concert revue comes to Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, with a brace of nostalgically inclined singers and a bevy of pelvicly primed dancers. After eight shows at Radio City, the concert will head out to 65 cities in the heartland. "How many people here under 20?" shouts Bill Medley, once a Righteous Brother and now the revue's closing act, before jumping into (I've Had) The Time of My Life, his hit theme from the movie. His question gets a good roar from the crowd. "How many over 20?" Another roar. The show...
...Settling in for the flight to Nassau, I picked up the text. Not a minute later, almost involuntarily, I let forth a cry that caused several passengers to turn in their seats." By the time his plane had landed, Seaman knew that TIME and the book's publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, had a best seller on their hands...
...First Lady, whose meddling became the "random factor in the Reagan presidency." Regan, who served the Administration for six years, the first four as Secretary of the Treasury, details how Nancy, and not her husband, stage-managed his ouster. His profile of her in For the Record, which Harcourt Brace Jovanovich is publishing this month and TIME is excerpting in the following pages, constitutes Exhibit 1 in the defense of Donald T. Regan...
Regan offered a sometimes bitter account of his stormy days at the White House in, For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and scheduled to go on sale in bookstores today...