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You make your statement with what you have. Crandall Addington, slim as a whip, whose year-round gamble is oil and gas exploration in South Texas, wears an elegant suit, a diamond stickpin, alligator boots, a neatly trimmed beard and a full-rigged Stetson. Tuna Lund, a huge fellow from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas, Nevada The Big Poker Freeze-Out | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

Elliot Loves, which opened off-Broadway last week in an elegant staging by Mike Nichols, starts with a solo lament by a middle-aged man (Anthony Heald) on the verge of proposing marriage. It ends with him and his intended (Christine Baranski) having their first really honest conversation, via the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Love Gap ELLIOT LOVES by Jules Feiffer | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

Those shopping for a philosophy of life could do no better than to look to the works of Reynolds Price. Since his 1962 debut with A Long and Happy Life, the elegant North Carolina novelist and poet has been examining the eternal puzzle of families as they love and hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Prayer for Raphael Noren | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

The preachings of the liberal West, Elegant argues, are undermined by the effectiveness of authoritarian Neo-Confucianism from Seoul to Tokyo to Taipei, from Beijing to Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur. Japan's energy comes from a disciplined adherence to the hierarchical loyalties demanded by the ancient philosophy. In Singapore, Lee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Confucius Says | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

Elegant, who draws on the tradition of the John Gunther series that included | Inside Europe Today, is tirelessly entertaining. His recollection of Indonesia under the demagogic strongman Sukarno casts history as comedy. His chapter on Australia is a lesson on how charm, wit and isolationism cannot save a country from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Confucius Says | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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