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Yet her native optimism persuades Whitman that sense and sanity will ultimately prevail. She is hopeful that the world trade negotiations, now grinding slowly in Geneva, will reach a creative conclusion by their Dec. 15 deadline. Such talks are a classic chicken game, and nothing is ever decided until the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Rise of the Role Model | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Perhaps the worst incident occurred at Beit Jala (pop. 8,200), five miles south of Jerusalem. One day last week, residents reported, about 50 Israeli troops rolled up in trucks and surrounded a school. Headmaster Louis Rabbo complained that he was "shoved rudely" by the soldiers when he tried to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: West Bank Crackdown | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

So ends the first act, with the audience expecting some kind of real action, at last, in the second act. The tensions are there--the plotted crime, as well as growing differences between Teach and Donny, mostly concerning Bobby, but also inspired by Teach's self-assured abrasiveness. But nothing...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Wooden Buffalo | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

In addition, Bourjaily does not always sense when his powers of invention are flagging. Some of the interpolated tales are simply dull. Others are tricked out with bad mannerisms. One limps along in rhymed couplets. Another makes extensive-and pointless-use of comic-strip balloons filled with dialogue. A young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Whoppers | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

Despite the fact that the victim is legally disembowelled by a state pathologist, clinically sawed and sliced apart beneath fluorescent lights in the basement of a funeral home before his very eyes, Gifford is nonetheless slain by her. Perhaps moved by the false eyelashes and atrophied, prematurely menopausal, ovaries--indicative...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Philip Marlowe and Jesus Christ on Cape Cod | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

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