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Q. But don't most people think, cynically, that politics is a crooked business?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Ethical Guru: BARBARA JORDAN | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

Tom Shaheen's illness has advanced to the stage where he is too weak to continue his work as a performance artist, and so he retreats to a beach house near Malibu, Calif. The ordinary problems and passions of the world seemingly behind him, Tom reduces his ambitions simply to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making A Life After AIDS | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

Thus Eton today is somewhat like an eagle in penguin's clothing. The Victorian morning dress that fashion-conscious boys once chose for the school uniform is still worn to classes, but jeans and ethnic shirts are increasingly common outside of them. Those who do not wish to win the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dusting Off the Old School Ties | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

Despite his twinkling blue eyes and disarmingly crooked smile, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney possesses a tongue as sharp as his mind. Soon after he took office last year, he publicly scalded a four-star Air Force general for going behind his back to Congress. Military-service chiefs who oppose Cheney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready, Aim, Fired | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

The burnished glow of the cinematography imparts a portentous, not to say pretentious, air to the halls of justice where much of the film's most significant action occurs. The scruffy atmosphere of the book, the sense of lively, crooked, occasionally desperate human scurryings along marbled halls that have not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slow Burner PRESUMED INNOCENT | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

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