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Where is the joy in being a writer for TIME if you can't play with a quote, but your book reviewer Stefan Kanfer may abuse the privilege. I excerpt from his review of my new collection, Pieces and Pontifications [June 28]: "[Mailer's] long-projected novel of ancient Egypt [is] here described [by Mailer] as 'amazing . .. chapter by chapter there's extraordinary stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 19, 1982 | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...ministers? For a year Kushner wrestled with the question in writing. The result, published in 1981, was When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Schocken Books; $10.95). It is an odd book-part classical theology, part cracker-barrel, self-help philosophy. But when an excerpt appeared in Redbook in the October 1981 issue, it made the author a national figure. Kushner, 47, the rabbi of Temple Israel in Natick, Mass., remembers the turning point well: "It was Rosh Hashana. We had just come home from services and were very tired. Suddenly the phone started ringing off the wall. All afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dear Rabbi - Why Me? | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Luck of Andrew Greeley | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...album ends as the concerts did, with a rather hokey taped excerpt from Jim Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner." The message in person was. "No encore, but isn't this a funny cryptic way of ending the show?" Reassuring, however, is Jagger's last line before the distorted guitar begins. "Thank yew..See yew next year--bah bah!" Gray hair and all, that would be nice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Still Living | 6/25/1982 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Our Parents' Business | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

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