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PORTEX. Fess up: a lot of what's so cool about personal computers -- their speed, their unforgiving accuracy -- is also what's so daunting. Here is an especially slick and simple piece of software that doesn't stint on wizardry and exudes a comforting, almost cozy familiarity. It turns any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 12, 1990 | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

Which gets to perhaps the central fact about today's excess of gossip and celebrity journalism: it is contemptuous of readers and viewers. It says they are incapable of dealing with real news and that they must be fed Pablum and given the illusion that they are vicariously participating in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: And What About the Truth? | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

Just how embedded this budgetary sleight of hand has become was illustrated during hearings by the Senate Finance Committee last week. U.S. Comptroller General Charles A. Bowsher described how the Government moved $52 billion from the Social Security trust funds, as well as $71 billion from other Government trust funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dirty Little Secret | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

A. He started relatively well. Among Communists, he is the best man, but his weakness is that he still suffers under the illusion that he can improve the system without changing it. Now events are beyond his control. I don't believe he will change. So he will be attacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia's MILOVAN DJILAS: Why Perestroika Cannot Succeed | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

Is it an illusion, or is the Reagan rhetoric losing its profundity?

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: George is on My Mind | 1/19/1990 | See Source »

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