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He also tells more than he knows. On the surface, his narrative is an old-fashioned adventure story, episodic, rambling, full of exotic surprises. Beneath all that activity, though, lie several conclusions that Charlie himself does not draw. Shaved of its excesses, Allie's critique of contemporary life is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Backwaters and Eccentrics | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

"From all the whirling. The horrors is in the literalness--the genital literalness of the delusion. That's what gives the curse its finality. The literalness of bodies and their members--outsides without insides."

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Bellow and the Burden of His Past | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

That O'Neill's strategists are now obsessed with such fund drives indicates a turn for the worse, as they seedily acknowledge. Says one aide, "I'd hoped we could use the springtime to organize for the primary based on our caucus turnout. But now we've got to raise...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Tommy's Crunch | 2/13/1982 | See Source »

New York City's Democratic Mayor Ed Koch termed the Reagan plan "a con job, a snare and a delusion, a steal by the Feds," adding, "I don't think he understands the impact of what he is doing." New York's Democratic Governor Hugh Carey contended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Federalism or Feudalism? | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

As self-inflicted generators of will-o-wisps, video games symbolize and intensify our collective hallucinations. In a republic pasted together from factions, only the lowest common denominators can supply the glue, so the delusion runs. Video games exist to make money for their owners; their appeal made as broad...

Author: By Peter Kolodziej, | Title: Confident Impotence | 12/12/1981 | See Source »

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