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Both chronologically and geographically, the cases she will consider are widespread: the Trojan decision to knock down their walls to admit the wooden horse. Montezuma's refusal to send his vast armies against Cortes. Napoleon's fated invasion of Russia, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the American involvement in Vietnam...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: In Search of History | 4/22/1983 | See Source »

...really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing. . . Knock-kneed, droop-stockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy, which at his age is coming on a bit strong...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Heads and Tails | 4/20/1983 | See Source »

...subject of Ararat is art, for that peculiar pulse is nothing if not creativity, and creativity is nothing if not the urge to live. Thomas manipulates his art in this novel so as not to knock the reader over with emotion as in The White Hotel, but rather to show him the structure behind that impervious force. Thomas achieves this unveiling partly through his language, which, though elegant and fragile, is not as colorful or as powerful as that in The White Hotel. Equally important are the characterizations. In The White Hotel, Lisa Erdman and Freud were a haunting, even...

Author: By Kathleen I. Kouril, | Title: Telling the Infinite Story | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

...blatant knock-off of the $40,000 two-seat Mercedes-Benz 380 SL that Chrysler has code-named the SL and will sell for about half the price. He is wagering an enormous amount, $700 million, that he can rekindle buyer interest in vans (see box). Chrysler claims the hybrid minivan will be as revolutionary as the Mustang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iacocca's Tightrope Act | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...Knock, knock. Who's there? Nancy Reagan, if one happened to be on the set of the NBC series Different Strokes in Los Angeles last week. The former actress, last seen in 1956's Hellcats of the Navy with Ronald Reagan, agreed to do the show as part of her crusade against teen-age drug abuse. On the program, which airs this Saturday, Arnold, played by Gary Coleman, writes a story about a drug ring in his school, and his report winds up in a New York City newspaper. Nancy, playing Nancy, reads it and drops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 21, 1983 | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

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