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Robin is candid about what she calls the "void" in her life. She lost her job last year as an administrator in Century 21's lobbying office. "I'm very content, but there's a small, medium area I would like to fill," she says. Like many children of divorce, she loves the idea of family and hopes for the opportunity to have a child. She jokes that the Doles' dog Leader is "my stepbrother." On the first Mother's Day after her father remarried, she took flowers to Elizabeth Dole, who, she says, cried because she didn't think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CANDIDATE'S DAUGHTER TAKES CENTER STAGE | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...waiting for a split in a fragile Netanyahu coalition that relies on the support of both religious and secular parties. If that coalition fails, Netanyahu may be forced to turn to the Labor Party as a partner, and Peres could become an influential Foreign Minister. His party would be content to celebrate him as an elder statesman. "He's perceived to be a loser," says Beyer. "He's never won an election for the Labor Party in five tries." A challenge to Peres' leadership probably will not come before next year, so his Labor colleagues have to hope Peres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peres Pipes Up | 8/14/1996 | See Source »

Writer-director Linda Krueger begins the film with Manny's voicing clunky, day-dreamy meditations: something about knowing someone in a dream before you meet them. The content isn't so important as the goal of drawing us into the kids' minds: wise before their years, and yet not really wise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Krueger Movie 'Manny & Lo' Is Slightly Grating | 8/13/1996 | See Source »

...comes across as unreasonably paranoid: throwing Elaine aside and cursing like a sailor. She isn't helped by having to toss off artificial-sounding lines about remembering who's in charge with regard to the kidnaping. And it is Lo who moves the plot along, where Manny would be content with looking at lizards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Krueger Movie 'Manny & Lo' Is Slightly Grating | 8/13/1996 | See Source »

...this the Olympics or One Life to Live? The story of Vitali took almost as much time to tell as Vitali took to perform. While the soap opera content of the Games has been growing ever since ABC's Roone Arledge invented "Up Close and Personal" for the 1972 Games, this year the mush quotient is out of control. The Dick Enberg Moment has become the tail wagging the dog. The spot on fencer Peter Westbrook prevailing over his humble beginnings ran four minutes, and we saw only three seconds of Westbrook actually jousting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOAP OPERA GAMES | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

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