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; And even when we're not speaking Spanish but only English that a Spaniard will understand, the effect is just as rejuvenating. How vivid the cliche "over the hill" sounds when we're explaining it to an Osaka businessman! How rich the idiom "raining cats and dogs!" Speaking English as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Excusez-Moi! Speakez-Vous Franglais? | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

Yet, to resort to the cliche that the First Lady "just didn't have the options we had" is to resort to the obvious; to argue that the controversy is a "generational thing" is utterly simplistic.

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Where Wellesley Went Wrong | 5/11/1990 | See Source »

"What, when drunk, one sees in other women," Kenneth Tynan wrote, "one sees in Garbo sober." But it wasn't the beauty alone that intoxicated. Garbo used her severe gorgeousness to suggest that the characters she played were creatures from a nobler, alien world, doomed to exile among the puny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greta Garbo: 1905-1990: The Last Mysterious Lady: | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

The winding plot, with its endless coincidences, cannot fail to confuse. Cymbeline plays out every cliche about lost heirs, wicked stepmothers, all-conquering love, attempted rape and absurd misunderstandings against the background of the Roman invasion of Britain.

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Huntington Shreds Shakespeare's Cymbeline | 3/20/1990 | See Source »

According to Oscar Wilde, who had plenty of reason to think so, all history is gossip. By that definition, Liz Smith is one of America's premier historians. From Palm Beach, Fla., to Santa Barbara, Calif., via her syndicated column and New York City television show, she catalogs the follies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Liz Smith | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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