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Gone With the Wind, book and movie, may be as close to a perpetual-motion machine as the entertainment business is likely to get. Margaret Mitchell's 1936 best seller and David O. Selznick's Technicolor extravaganza have sustained each other for more than 50 years. Readers beget viewers, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frankly, It's Not Worth a Damn | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

-- Biden went after Thomas for the latter's "natural law" approach to interpreting the Constitution, by which judges can invoke vague notions of eternal justice that pre-exist the written document. Yet in his opening remarks to Bork four years ago, Biden celebrated something that sounded like a liberal's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supreme Court: Judging the Judge | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

How noble the dream, how ignoble the modern reality. Mann's crowning achievement was the 19th century American common school, a place where children from all backgrounds could nurture democracy through a shared educational experience. Not very long ago, that vision seemed an eternal verity, enshrined in the public-school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lamar Alexander: Tough Choice | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

Too many songs, George S. Kaufman thought. "Good God," muttered the director of Guys and Dolls during the volatile rehearsals, "do we have to do every number this son of a bitch ever wrote?" You bet, when every number is a small ruby; the first act alone comprises its own...

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

"You bet. Also, I don't believe his stuff. I don't believe that sensing a need to take himself less seriously, he walked downtown wearing a suit and tie and a little kid's cap with a propeller. Or that he wears a watch with a face but no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Itty-Bitty | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

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