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...customary in a Le Carre novel, the odor of moral fatigue and middle-age burnout cling to every page. But Magnus' betrayals also smell of the cradle and the grave. His acts of treason are not rooted in greed or politics. They are delayed rebellions not only against a criminal father but against a system that appears only slightly better. "You have a lawyer's training, you have Czech language and Czech expertise," a personnel bureaucrat tells a reassigned spy. "More appropriately you have a thoroughly sleazy mind. Apply it . . . We expect terrible things of you." This sort of thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Tale of the Acorn and the Tree a Perfect Spy | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...Mariann Marlowe; and an all-vinyl snakeskin suit by Animal-X. Some of the clothes go for immediate impact over staying power. But there are a fair number of designers, like Morton and Goodman, who are imaginative enough to be in no immediate danger of a burnout, and there are others, as well, who show signs of staying the course. Three examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: East Village Stars and Stripes | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

What makes her success even more remarkable is that it has come in a sport that is notorious for taking its toll on competitors. The grueling nature of distance running often leads to injuries and burnout--not three-year champs...

Author: By Kate Wiley, | Title: Wileying Away the Miles | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

...many victims of the burnout, the healing will take a long time. Most had lost not only the practical hard goods of existence but the small, irreplaceable mementos and icons of a lifetime. Inez Nichols had recently installed new carpeting and bathroom appliances in the home she and her late husband had bought 27 years ago, but knew she would miss most poignantly what had been the only existing pictures of her mother and spouse. Nadine Fosky, 22, "lost, quite simply, everything." Clothes. School papers. Her special Buddhist chanting scroll. She anguished over it all -- even over the very special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Looks Just Like a War Zone | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...niceness. Kathleen from New Hampshire says that last fall at Augusta, Me., she was stopped at the door when someone sold her a counterfeit Dead ticket. She was sitting outside the hall, crying, when a stranger came up and gave her a real ticket, and a rose. But drug burnout is a problem among these nice people. Keep your ears open just before a concert and you hear an LSD vendor saying, "Trips, trips," without moving his mouth. "Yeah," says Monica from Santa Monica, Calif., a pale 20-year-old who looks 14. "My girlfriend was using acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: the Dead Live On | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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