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Alas, there is no easy way to distinguish fact and fiction in many memories. The best method is to find corroborating evidence, from witnesses or written records, say, diaries or hospital charts, that can document the event. Years from now, videotapes of the Hill-Thomas hearings may verify the sights and sounds of their testimony, but the heart of their dispute is likely to remain unresolved. Whose memory told the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Can Memories Be Trusted? | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

This story of life's monotony could have been written by many an American. Kaplan does not distinguish himself by challenging fiction's boundaries, although he delivers an adequate story. Frank's thought patterns are remarkably believable. His nature is very familiar, except he, like the comic strip character, is a born loser...

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, | Title: Skating is the Story of a Born Loser | 10/10/1991 | See Source »

...donazi's base is a clinic and research facility he founded in the remote town of Bouar. There he collects plants used by healers for laboratory analysis in order to distinguish those with biomedical value from those that have only a placebo effect. His staff dispenses both Western drugs and low- cost and proven traditional preparations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central African Republic | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...when every number is a small ruby; the first act alone comprises its own Top 10 eternal hit parade. The ballads If I Were a Bell and I've Never Been in Love Before and the up- tempo Fugue for Tinhorns and A Bushel and a Peck distinguish any musical. But the savor of Guys and Dolls is in Loesser's capturing of the Damon Runyon Broadway wit, and by extension the unique pizazz of big-town America. No one had put a medical dictionary to music and turned it into a declaration of psychosomatic desperation, as in the nonpareil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Snappy Fella | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

...dimensions. Then came the three novels that won her wide and deserved readership -- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985) and the Pulitzer- prizewinning Breathing Lessons (1988) -- in which the seams between the joy and pain, the comedy and tragedy of everyday existence became impossible to distinguish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for A Second Chance | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

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