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These are the candid, plangent voices of Israel's soldiers, angry reservists confronting Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir last week in a makeshift encampment outside Nablus, the largest and most turbulent Arab city on the occupied West Bank. Nothing since the 1982 war in Lebanon has eaten into the heart of Israel's most revered institution, the Israel Defense Forces, as the past 14 months of bitter war against children and stones has done. Seemingly impervious to Israel's iron fist, the Palestinian uprising rages on, and that is exacting a price from the I.D.F. measured less in injuries than...
Once the interview was under way, however, the questions Carlson had worked out with White House correspondent Michael Duffy drew surprisingly candid answers from the new First Lady. Carlson predicts that Mrs. Bush will be neither a demi-Cabinet member like Rosalynn Carter nor a backstage impresario like Nancy Reagan. "Mrs. Bush is so sure of herself, she has no need to prove anything," says Carlson. "She is as comfortable discussing the merits of one campaign ad over another as she is pouring...
...written surveys usually include a few ringers (example: "Do you always tell the truth?") to determine whether a job seeker is being candid. No single answer brands a person as a liar or thief, but those who administer the test watch for ominous patterns. Observes Arthur Le Blanc, a California psychologist who helped screen new employees hired for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles: "If you score in a certain range, you're more likely to be dishonest...
PRIVATE VIEW: INSIDE BARYSHNIKOV'S AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE by John Fraser (Bantam; $30). One season (1986-87) in the life of a great dance company. The text and grainy candid photographs by Eve Arnold beat with life and explode with candor...
...players and the larger issues. "The campaign may have seemed sour and petty," Isaacson says, "but we tried to find interesting ways to cover it." He points with special pride to a series of essays in which the magazine explored the issues that received short shrift from the candidates: health care, the underclass, homelessness, relations with the Soviets. The Grapevine section took readers behind the scenes for exclusive candid snapshots of the campaign. TIME also kept a close watch on the coterie of aides managing the candidates. "It was the year of the handlers," says Isaacson. "When...