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...just putting in my time What did she know about Mang Yang Pass, halfway between insanity and hell? A few weeks after I returned to the "real world," we went to a friend's wedding. A truck backfired. I reacted instinctively. My understanding wife couldn't quite comprehend what I was doing cringing in the gutter, rolled up next to a parked car on New York City's Third Avenue. I should have told her. I should have told the whole damn world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Editors | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...thing to try to prevent genetic abnormalities, but to kill an innocent baby because it is "less than perfect" is more than I can comprehend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 20, 1981 | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

More difficult to comprehend is Timerman's story of why he was abducted in the first place. He recounts crude anti-Semitic insults and the paranoid belief in a Jewish plot to seize Argentina's windswept Patagonia region for a new Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Face of Fascism | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

...necessary sarcastic edge, her climatic argument with him in the third act beautifully reveats Meg's reluctant tenderness. As Lestile, the young British hostage. Nick wyse finds the right balance of cynicism and naivete. Like the tenants of the lodging he loves his country, but he doesn't fully comprehend the war-especially when confronted with the possibility of his own execution. Wyse captures Leslie's confusion and terror without forcing the pathos of his plight Holley Stewart makes Teresa a complex and full blooded variation on the ancient virgin-where theme...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: The Celtic Twilight | 4/29/1981 | See Source »

...father, neither does he depend on them for an identity, as does the appropriately-named Son of the Grand Wazir (who is deposited into the Princess's marriage bed by his father's influence and desire and is similarly plucked from it by forces he cannot control--or even comprehend...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Aladdinescence | 3/12/1981 | See Source »

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