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...these policies, along with a number of others, have alienated an overwhelming number of conservatives within the Republican party. But even this alienation may not have been politically fatal to Bush's constituency. What is even more tragic for Bush's candidacy is his alienation of fiscal conservatives as well...
Readers of TIME have long been familiar with Robert Hughes' provocative, elegantly expressed art reviews. But the art world has never been enough to hold Hughes; he is one of the magazine's true Renaissance men. In 1987 he published The Fatal Shore, a best-selling, critically acclaimed history of the settling of his native Australia. Next month Knopf will bring out Barcelona, his account of the social and cultural history of the Spanish city. In the pages of TIME, Hughes has had his say on everything from motorcycling to gun control...
...Clinton mess last week suggested something about a certain brainless overstimulation of American media life. In his novel Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow wrote about the arrival of fame: "I experienced the high voltage of publicity. It was like picking up a dangerous wire fatal to ordinary folk. It was like the rattlesnakes handled by hillbillies in a state of religious exaltation." Bill Clinton, wholesome, ruddy Arkansas boy, found himself handling poisonous snakes. Ugly stories have a slithering life of their...
Douglas is best known for the roles he has played in "Fatal Attraction," "Wall Street," and "Romancing the Stone...
...Douglas is one of the town's most respected and powerful actor-producers; his risks pay off. Should Tri-Star take a gamble on his instincts? Director Lili Fini Zanuck (Rush) thinks so: "You've got Michael Douglas, a major star who has proved himself in a similar film, Fatal Attraction. If the studio will back Basic Instinct, so will the marketplace...