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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both of these doting parents are Jewish emigres from central Europe who came to New York City as children in the late 1920s. For years, Lola has been the richest source of her daughter's comic material. "Do you know what my mother said to me on the opening night of Uncommon Women?" Wasserstein asks rhetorically. " 'Wendy, where did you get those shoes?' " When Isn't It Romantic was playing off-Broadway, Wasserstein's parents would stroll over to the theater and canvass the crowd. "My mother would call and say, 'Oh, what well-dressed people,' " Wasserstein recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WENDY WASSERSTEIN: Chronicler Of Frayed Feminism | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...urge Jerusalem to deal directly with the P.L.O. rather than with "moderate" West Bank Palestinians (who can never be found) may eventually force Shamir out of his bunker. Baker "was rather astute," concedes an Israeli diplomat. "The fact that Baker is clearly not eager to play a central role in our crisis may actually cause Shamir to be more forthcoming with his own proposals when he visits Bush in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Steps Toward a Policy | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...Baker's Middle East strategy includes avoiding a sense of urgency, the , U.S. must step up the pace in Central America, where events threaten to outrun the Administration's ability to deal with them. In Nicaragua the Sandinistas have cried "peace" just cleverly enough to convince the Central American Presidents that the contras, who number about 11,000, should be dislodged from Honduras and disbanded. Although the rebels are pretty well finished as a fighting force, Bush and Baker want to keep them in place and continue supplying them with food, clothing and medical supplies until the Nicaraguan elections, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Steps Toward a Policy | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...rate of about $4 million a month. The Democrats haven't said yes yet, but they have been willing to listen. "There's a lot more trust with these guys than there ever was with the Reagan crowd," says Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd, a persistent critic of Reagan's Central America policy. "We're a fair way from agreement, but barring the unforeseen, I think we'll get there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Steps Toward a Policy | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...probably someone with dyed black hair who concentrates in Literature or Social Studies, espouses bisexuality because it's politically correct and works part time for an organization devoted to research on Central America. The mere sight of such a person is enough to make me cringe, because I know what's coming next: suddenly this perfectly inoffensive conversation will shift to an intense examination of the phallologoandrocentric nature of the universe as it relates to Derridean theory and...blah blah blah...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Remedy for the Harvard Sickness | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

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