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De Borchgrave is regarded in media circles as somewhat of a prince, Newsweek's chief foreign correspondent who regularly conducts penetrating interview with world leaders, often ferreting out slivers of information no one else gets. Moss edits Foreign Report, a trenchant publication associated with London's conservative Economist. He has...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Don't Touch That Story--It's Unpatriotic | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

When he tells this anecdote, Fuller loves to emphasize that the Israelis are survivors. This same heavy-handed irony slips into The Big Red One only in the final scene, when Fuller cannot restrain his narrator (Fuller himself, since the film is largely autobiographical) from underlining the message about survival...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Fine Art of Survival | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

Athletes have compared a great victory to the grandest of emotions--it's like reaching the top of Mt. Everest or flying over the Grand Canyon. "It's sublime," they say. "You can't describe it." But true to the old cliche, winning in the Ivy League has gone from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous | 5/21/1980 | See Source »

"Confusing the simply antisocial with the revolutionary, Mailer develops an aesthetic whose chief temperamental characteristic is a malign machismo, still dear to those in the New Left who have fallen under Mailer's spell in adolescence or continue to confuse Che Guevara with the brassy cliche of the Westerns," she...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sexual Politics | 5/8/1980 | See Source »

And a final cliche: "There's a first time for everything."

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Huskies Bag Beans | 2/12/1980 | See Source »

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