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Some skepticism may be permissible. The Gallic taste for abstractions and literary fun and games is not universally shared. And wordplay, no matter how winsome, does not travel well from one language to another. In any case, English-speaking readers can now examine Perec's most acclaimed book for themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jigsaws Life: a User's Manual | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

The Dorgan Task Force, a 10-member committee convened by North Dakota Congressman Byran L. Dorgan last spring to examine the merits of revenue enforcement plans, endorsed many of the policies Dukakis suggested in a report released in May.

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: Dukakis Boasts National Revenue Collection Plan | 11/17/1987 | See Source »

The speech was a letdown to some reform-minded Soviets who had been hoping for a more thorough, hard-hitting appraisal of the party's past mistakes. "I was very disappointed," said Mathematician Naum Meiman, 76, one of the country's most prominent dissidents. "The speech was the result of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Lifting the Veil on History | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

The latest inquiry into Hull's activities began two weeks ago, when the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Affairs opened hearings in Washington to probe U.S. Government loans to Hull and examine charges that contra suppliers operating from Hull's ranches had been flying shipments of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Misadventures of el Patron | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

To call The Bonfire of the Vanities Wolfe's first novel is to make a distinction without too much difference. The ingeniously rigged plot is clearly fictional, but the details of New York City life, high and low, leap from the legman's notebook. The novel first appeared in Rolling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Haves and the Have-Mores THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 659 pages; $19.95 | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

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