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Russian, in fact, bound them together and eventually broke them apart. This theme is the most consistent in their extended correspondence and reads as though two worldly gentlemen were comparing notes on a shared mistress. Yet between the lines about metrics and grammar grinds a mutual competitiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chain Mail | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...prostitute in Paris, ostensibly settles inVenice to view the churches and paintings. But he is really there to pursue Lina, a Bulgarian refugee searching for her father's grave. The plot, and the crowd, thickens: Robert's aging male lover, his father and his father's mistress arrive, as well as a friend of Robert's mother, sent to spy on his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Venetian Affair | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...fusion in a Western mental hospital. There the principals-a deranged young Texas millionaire, a female Japanese physicist suffering from Nagasaki syndrome and a dishonorably discharged black Vietvet -first pool their malignant talents. The group's nuclear capability is channeled by an ambitious eminence blonde, mistress of a powerful and power-hungry U.S. Senator, in an attempt to plunge the nation into panic and bestow dictatorial powers on him/her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Malice in Wonderland | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...Dobelle, the young, pretty mistress of U.S. protocol at the State Department, announced the signing in a firm full voice. Pens glided smoothly across the pages, and in a few minutes Carter looked up from the last signature and said, "Let's have a handshake." Applause rose again as the men came together and clasped in a three-way grip like a debating team that had just won the match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: In Celebration of Peace | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

Freedom is a capricious and demanding mistress. The defense of her integrity is an unrelenting vigilance which takes the form of a continuous negotiation of the terms for her life. So it has been since the medieval, monastic beginnings of our modern universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reply to Bok | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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