Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certain expectations, models of an almost Freudian kind, do ghost around just below the surface of political consciousness. Why is Ronald Reagan so popular? Why is he, as some say, coated with Teflon, so that his blunders don't stick to him? One reason (impossible to prove but worth...
The protesters sought not revenge but peace of mind, to go to bed at night knowing the fate of their dearest. "Both my husband and my eldest son disappeared eight years ago," said Fatmi Hassan, 54, proffering two smudged black-and-white photos as proof. "The Christian militia took them...
For a movie set, a dashing movie star: Kevin Kline. Like the young Olivier, whom he eerily resembles, Kline has shuttled successfully between stage (The Pirates of Penzance) and screen (The Big Chill). Last summer in Central Park he portrayed Richard III as a passionate black comedian who got sexual...
This is not the usual rock show. Certainly it is not the usual rock-show audience. Perhaps no major entertainer has ever attracted as many preadolescent children as Michael Jackson has. At Arrowhead the audience of approximately 45,000 was filled with them, staring enraptured at all the whiz-bang...
If one asks, then, where the larger truth is to be sought, the answer is where it has always been: in history, poetry, art, nature, education, conversation; in the tunnels of one's own mind. People may have come to expect too much of journalism. Not of journalism at...