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Merle Miller, who died shortly after finishing this mammoth book last year, achieved his greatest success with his oral biographies of Presidents Truman and Johnson. He obviously knows a good story, and he admires his hero. Though a number of Eisenhower's fellow commanders in World War II regarded him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Machiavellian Ike the Soldier | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Alfred E. Vellucci begins his fourth two-year term as mayor of Cambridge this month. At 72, he has spent half his life in local politics, earning a reputation for colorful oratory, political cunning and undying persistence in giving come-uppances to the blue-blooded types of Harvard University.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Al's Back | 1/13/1988 | See Source »

The world is now accustomed to the contrast between Gorbachev's style and that of his thuggy Soviet predecessors -- brutal, cunning, stony-faced -- but it still marvels at how the sterile Soviet system could produce a leader so articulate and reasonable in tone if not substance. Too adroit to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Newswatch: High Moments in a Low Key | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

As a reviewer in London and New York City in the '50s and early '60s, he demonstrated an unequaled gift for capturing the theatrical moment in language charged with wit, passion and a vibrant vision of what theater might be and rarely was (or is). His pieces offered nothing less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doing Turns on a High Wire | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

"Fatal Abstraction." In Ridley Scott's Someone to Watch Over Me, a cop (Tom Berenger) is assigned to guard a rich woman (Mimi Rogers) who witnessed a murder. He loves his wife but is seduced by the lady's wealth and vulnerability. And then -- can you hear it coming? -- his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

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