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...doctor' s candid account of a mercy killing inflames the profession and renews debate over the care and treatment of the terminally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page February 15 | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...around Sergeant Cribb, then echoed the early 20th century in the nostalgic Hollywood story Keystone and the brilliantly plotted thriller The False Inspector Dew. Here he returns to 19th century London and, as always, to a subtle but relentless dissection of Britain's unjust social-class system. The rueful, candid voice he gives to the fleshy prince rings true, the details of the horse-racing and music-hall worlds are vivid, and much of the tale is sweetly funny -- as when His Royal Highness, disguised to investigate a murder, is accosted by a streetwalker who addresses him amiably as "Tubby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Many Guises of Mysteries | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

Ellmann's account of this lamentable affair is candid and sympathetic. "Bosie" Douglas, 16 years Wilde's junior, had a taste for casual, commercial sex and induced Wilde to follow this lead. The older man was the innocent: "What seems to characterize all Wilde's affairs is that he got to know the boys as individuals, treated them handsomely, allowed them to refuse his attentions without becoming rancorous, and did not corrupt them. They were already prostitutes." That Wilde was careless, selfish and inconsiderate toward his faithful wife and his children is beyond dispute. But he did not deserve being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Celebrant of Mixed Motives OSCAR WILDE | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

...always agree with his $reforms, but Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev so $dominated the world scene in 1987 that he is $TIME's Man of the Year. But who is he? What $forces have shaped his mind, his methods? How $did he rise from Privolnoye to power? TIME $presents a candid biography of the year' s most $remarkable figure. -- For a Soviet wife, she is $uncommonly outspoken, glamorous and $controversial. Raisa is also her husband' s secret $weapon. -- A White House scandal unfolds, a $contrary war continues, a boom goes bust, and a $plague rages on. It was a year that Ronald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page January 4, 1988 | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

Wrong. More than 1 million households in Boston's Fidelity Magellan, the biggest and most celebrated mutual fund, watched the price of their shares plunge by nearly 23% in three days of trading. In an unusually candid and revealing series of interviews with TIME, Peter Lynch, Magellan's manager, offers no excuses. "I was caught in a trap," he says. "I should have paid more attention to the red flags out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up, Up, then Doooown | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

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