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...seriously by giving real weight to Fiona's predicament. She is bright and tough, but the pressure of remembering her lines and her lies has worn away her resilience. She worries about going mad, about having already gone mad. Her sometime lover, probably also her KGB watcher, notices her distress and kindly, slyly, asks the reason. " 'I was thinking about my hair,' she said. 'About having it cut shorter.' Men were always ready to believe that women were thinking about their hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: End Game | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

...Indiana University, Pauley majored in political science and participated in a decorous student walkout during Founder's Day ceremonies, in protest against a proposed tuition increase. She remembers the incident chiefly for the distress it caused her staunch Republican parents: "It was a very low moment for my father." Nor were her parents thrilled when, after graduating from college a semester early, she went to work for John Lindsay's 1972 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, then for the state Democratic Central Committee. "Mom was mad at me all summer," she says. "My father was at least pleased that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JANE PAULEY: Surviving Nicely, Thanks | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

...published Intimate Relations: Exploring Indian Sexuality, suggests that rape in movies is rooted in the Indian male's strong bond with his mother in childhood. Rape, Kakar argues, is a way of momentarily subjugating the all-powerful, suffocating mother figure; hence the male delight at seeing a woman in distress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Romance and A Little Rape | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

...publicity, he took center stage last week in a media barrage that ricocheted from Crossfire to Nightline, Good Morning America to Geraldo. Describing his device as "humane, dignified and painless" -- and his critics as "brainwashed ethicists" or "religious nuts" -- Kevorkian insisted that he wanted only to help patients in distress. "My biggest enemies," he says, "are the medical organizations because the independent doctors tell me they are behind me, but they can't speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Dr. Death's Suicide | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...prospect of his downfall set off a fresh round of amazement among Trump watchers, who only four months ago had savored the melodrama of his separation from his wife Ivana and his affair with the model Marla Maples. The distress of Donald, the biggest self-promoter of the past decade, was too poetic to resist. TRUMP IN A SLUMP declared the New York Daily News. UH-OWE! said the city's Post, which dubbed Trump's new casino "the eighth blunder of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble with A Big T | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

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