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ALL ACROSS this frothy bowl of milk and cornflakes we call our nation, millions of average Americans are twitching and hopping as they stroll down our streets, mouths silently opening and closing, little pockets of drool collecting on their shirt-fronts. Hygienic concerns aside, just what the hell is wrong...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Musical Madness | 3/4/1987 | See Source »

At the heart of the case, as it unfolds before a three-judge tribunal in a converted movie theater in Jerusalem, is the reliability of human memory. Photographs, maps and records were all burned by the Germans after they razed Treblinka in late 1943. As many as a dozen survivors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Trial by Bitter Recollection | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

Only those possessed by a demonic vision would condone the perpetuation of the nuclear arms race ad infinitum. But only fools, or perhaps Neville Chamberlains, would succumb to the temptation to suddenly and completely change the political and military landscape without considering the possible consequences. A Reagan-Gorbachev agreement to...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Not So Fast | 10/16/1986 | See Source »

Ever since the heyday of horror fiction, when Henry James and Edith Wharton tried their hands at the supernatural, aficionados have been awaiting a writer to transcend the genre and give it a new legitimacy. Clive Barker may be the man. He is as morbid as Stephen King, but unlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Aug. 4, 1986 | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

Two better shows in the central pavilion also take up the theme of technology, science and art. "The Representation of Space" has some painstaking reconstructions of spatial illusion in Renaissance and baroque art; its best moment (which will be the envy of all red-blooded interior decorators) is a full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Egos, Kitsch and the Real Thing | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

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