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...more TIME staff members have books that will be available next month. Contributor Richard Schickel's Cary Grant: A Celebration (Little, Brown) is a long essay on Grant's film career and the creation of his screen personality. Associate Editor Walter Isaacson's Pro and Con (Putnam) is subtitled Both Sides of Dozens of Unsettled and Unsettling Arguments, and consists of 60 chapters on controversies large and small from abortion to creationism to baseball's designated-hitter rule...
...Walter Isaacson Reported by Lee Griggs/Chicago and Geoffrey Leavenworth/Galveston
...generous for a moment. Grant Lumet and Screenwriter E.L. Doctorow (whose novel, The Book of Daniel, the film follows closely) creative license and a clean slate. Daniel is, after all, the story not only of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, but also of their children Daniel and Susan and their attempts to understand and revive what the film's press notes describe as the Isaacsons' "dream of social justice...
...These radical "good Germans" had their excuses, as do all true believers. But were they as ingenuous as Daniel makes them out to be? On the film's testimony, U.S. Communists were a folk-singing choir who loved picnics, baseball and Joseph Stalin, roughly in that order. Paul Isaacson (Mandy Patinkin) was the party's star tummler, strutting as vivaciously on Death Row as he would have on the Borscht Belt. And Rochelle (Lindsay Grouse) was a righteous, steel-rimmed Yiddish mama...
...public stage is a reminder that the nation's racial dilemma is far from solved. And the stark fact that he, or any other black, cannot be elected President in 1984 is, understandably to Jackson, perhaps the most compelling reason for him to run. ? By Walter Isaacson...