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INDICTED. HENRY CISNEROS, 50, Clinton's first Housing Secretary; on 18 felony counts, including lying to the fbi about payments to his ex-mistress; by a federal grand jury; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 22, 1997 | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...well known authors like Wolff, Stone and Cynthia Ozick, are the works of emerging talents like newly minted literary wunderkind Junot Diaz. "Fiesta, 1980"--which is also included in Diaz's critically lauded 1996 debut "Drown"--details a Dominican American boy's encounters with his father's Puerto Rican mistress and his experience at a lively family party. Here Diaz once again proves that he is one of the best young writers around not for what Proulx calls his distinct "cultural, ethnic, and class" perspective, but because underneath his deceptively simple, "street vernacular" prose is a powerful storyteller as equally...

Author: By Brandon K. Walston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Best of the Best | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

MOSCOW: History is a cruel and capricious mistress, a fact of which nobody ought to be more aware than Pizza Hut poster boy Mikhail Gorbachev. The man once feted as the visionary whose reforms brought down the Iron Curtain has been reduced to a prop in a fast food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorbachev's Cheesy Legacy | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

...Spencer's former mistress, Chantal Collopy, describing the earl's cruel behavior ("There is just something that he does that makes you feel worthless"), says he backed out of their budding relationship just before her divorce became official. "(Spencer) had said to me, 'Will you promise to marry me?'" Collopy told Britain's Sky News. "He said that a few times." She said her marriage ended after her husband taped her telephone calls and heard her say "I love you" to Spencer. Just before the divorce, however, Spencer had "a panic attack" and told her he couldn't offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall of Spencer? | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...once, all the elements meshed. The sale totaled $206.5 million, the largest return ever on a private collection sold at auction. The $48.4 million bid by an undisclosed buyer for Picasso's The Dream, a lyrically erotic 1932 portrait of his mistress, Marie-Therese Walter, was the second highest sum ever paid for a Picasso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUCTIONEERS' SLUGFEST | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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