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Exactly when did I become addicted to alcohol? I don't know that either. The addiction was preceded by a delusion: I thought I drank to socialize. Maybe I did. My alcoholism took years to develop into a chronic affliction, and during much of that time I went to bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diary of A Drunk | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

Much has been made about the enigma of North. But that is in large part because this earnest, magnetic, often generous man has been his own best mythologizer, telling reporters and acquaintances stories about himself that bent the truth. Blissfully free of self-doubt, he could be a victim of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True Belief Unhampered by Doubt | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

All My Sons has widely been regarded as dated. But this year it has enjoyed two exceptional revivals, a PBS production starring James Whitmore and a staging by New Haven's Long Wharf Theater that opened on Broadway last week. Both demonstrate that it is a timeless story of self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Avenging Fury ALL MY SONS | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

Artists are crazy, the rest of us like to think. And great artists are emotional idiots savants, charting the terra incognita of human experience by going over the edge. It is a lovely delusion. It excuses so many excesses and failures, gives rise to so many cautionary legends. George Gordon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Still Crazy After All These Fears | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

Attempts by North to alter, and perhaps even delete, certain key files may have been foiled by another feature of the system. Like most computers, the NSC mainframe deletes electronic documents not by obliterating the data they contain, but by removing their file names from a central disk directory. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Can A System Keep a Secret? | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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