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What is striking about the book, however, is that it is so entertaining. Holroyd manages to make each successive phase of Shaw's life seem significant of itself, rather than simply as a foretoken of what was to come or as raw material for the plays. Even minor figures often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Crybaby to Curmudgeon | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

This collection, scrupulously annotated by her friend Sally Fitzgerald, includes the two novels, all 28 short stories, essays and more than 250 indiscreet and entertaining letters. In them a previously hidden critic emerges: "Mr. Truman Capote makes me plumb sick, as does Mr. Tenn. Williams . . . if ((James)) Baldwin were white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Oct. 3, 1988 | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

The problem with this type of coverage is that NBC has eliminated the build-up of dramatic sports stories that are usually the most entertaining part of the Olympics. Instead of covering anything completely, they show everything incompletely.

Author: By Jeffrey P. Meier, | Title: Split-Screen Seoul Ache | 9/24/1988 | See Source »

Critics charge that the Government is getting robbed. Democrat Fernand J. St. Germain of Rhode Island, chairman of the House Banking Committee, accused the Bank Board last week of simply giving American Savings to Bass without seriously entertaining a competing bid from First Nationwide Bank, a San Francisco-based subsidiary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold Among the Ruins | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

That is a slippery conclusion, in which Masson blames psychiatrists because they do not agree with him. Although the author's slash-and-burn style of argument can be entertaining, readers should keep their hands on their wallets. Assertions tend to be sold as established facts. Masson writes, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Shrink Has No Clothes AGAINST THERAPY | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

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