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...time?just how destructive substance abuse can be to an otherwise decent family." BOOKS . . . THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SON: You needn?t be a Christian to find Norman Mailer's new novel (Random House; 242 pages; $22) purporting to be a first-person memoir written by Jesus a dubious and ultimately failed enterprise. Conceivably, imaginative literature at its highest pitch could do what tons of historical research and theological studies have failed to accomplish: present a convincing account of what it may have felt like to be the man Jesus, human like his contemporaries but given a divine vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

...more recent decades who increasingly barked and bit his way through songs. Those Sinatras already have live albums. Here, for the first time on an official release, is Sinatra in front of an audience at close to his mid-'50s prime, the voice still lithe, graceful and burnished--and dubious hits like My Way yet to be written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: ANOTHER WAY | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...firm--was ultimately rejected by skeptical stockholders. "I think it was...an issue of character," said tobacco-industry analyst Ellen Baras at the time. "I think there are people who would support a spin-off of Nabisco, but not by LeBow." One of the prime factors was LeBow's dubious reputation as a manager. In 1994 his own shareholders had sued him, claiming he had taken millions of dollars in improper loans; LeBow settled out of court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POPULIST HERO OR BOTTOM FEEDER? | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

DALLAS MORNING NEWS Publish and be damned? Yes, for running a dubious confession by Timothy McVeigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 17, 1997 | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...Cabinet of Dr. Caligari seeks to unify these two influences in one wild story. Penny Price (Phoebe Jonas) is the owner of a penny arcade which has been struggling financially ever since her lover died years ago. At the height of her despair, Caligari (Alvin Epstein) and his dubious troupe blast into town, demanding to use the arcade as a setting for their show. Caligari tricks many of the townspeople into participating in his performance, and they all realize too late that they will not make it through Caligari's twisted and absurd variety act alive...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: 'Caligari' Saturates Senses, Lacks Coherence | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

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