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Roth's stab at seriousness is less brilliant. As he dies, Zuckerman's father looks at his son and whispers, "Bastard." Is this the final misunderstanding, the last, most painful blurring of illusion and illusionist? The question is mooted by Zuckerman's response. He is relieved. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Million-Dollar Misunderstanding | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

During the conference, the doctors drafted letters to both President Ronald Reagan and Brezhnev voicing IPPWN's concerns. Chazov, the organization's main Soviet link, co-chaired the conference with Lown, and joined the American doctors in calling "limited" nuclear war an illusion and criticizing those "military, public fuctionaries and...

Author: By Kate Orville, | Title: Prevention When There is No Cure | 5/20/1981 | See Source »

The startling recovery of Begin and his Likud coalition was due in part to Labor's overconfidence and failure to mount an aggressive early offensive. The departure from Begin's Cabinet of such prickly individualists as Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Finance Minister Yigal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Troubled Land of Zion | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

When Billy Martin's Oakland A's climbed from last place in 1979 to second in the American League West last year, critics insisted that Martin's magic could not last. He was, after all, using mirrors- often platooning eight mediocre players, for instance-to create the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Oakland, a Record Blast-Off | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

To get "natural" hues-as natural as those of color photography-Close applied three overlays of standard color, in effect, three monochrome portraits painted on top of each other: first red, then blue, then yellow. The illusion rises quite automatically out of the method. Seen against the plodding, laborious character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Close, Closer, Closest | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

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