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Having tirelessly ridiculed the notion that his books are really about himself, Roth has now produced -- an autobiography. It is not called The Counterbook, as it turns out, but The Facts, in which the previously reticent writer points out instances in which his life, after all, has been lugged directly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Surprising Mid-Life Striptease | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

Maybe this confession will just tar me as unpatriotic too, but nothing since I came of political age has depressed me so much about American democracy as the apparent success of Bush's pledge offensive. What, after all, is American patriotism about? It's not about purple mountain majesties -- they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Rally Round the Flag, Boys | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

Speculation arose that Hammadi's confession was part of a maneuver by Iran that could free West German Rudolf Cordes, one of 16 foreign hostages believed to be held in Beirut by groups like the pro-Iranian Hizballah. Most experts doubted, however, that West Germany would agree to a Hammadi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Intrigue in The Courtroom | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

WE might as well as say it up front, right at the beginning: welfare is bad, very bad. That's the confession which David Ellwood, a good liberal proponent of welfare reform, is forced to make at the outset of his blueprint for change, Poor Support: Poverty in the American...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Curing Social Ills | 8/12/1988 | See Source »

The news and documentary field is more rewarding. NBC has produced 1987: The Unforgettable Year, a 75-minute review of such major news events as the stock- market crash and the downfall of Evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker, anchored by Tom Brokaw. An ABC-produced cassette on the 1988 Winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Freaks, Dorfs and Betsy Wetsy | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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