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...hilly precincts of Chattanooga these days, a lot of get-ahead people are doing combat against the peril of forward tongue carry. They are running through word lists, striving to keep their monosyllables crisp: "What kind of boy is George? Mean. Mean-mean-mean-mean-mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chattanooga: How Not to Talk like a Southerner | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...women. Having resisted the Navy policy change that put them on board, the ship's narrator-captain treats them fairly, admires their sailorly skills and forgets to his peril that they are, after all, women. An austere career man identified only as Tom or the Captain, he leads the mixed crew bravely through mutiny, internecine murder and nuclear winter, until at last he confronts the cunning of Lieut. Girard, the ship's ranking female. "She carried that greatest of all handicaps that may befall a woman," Tom laments before falling for her. "She was simply too bright for most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seapersons the Last Ship | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

After thrashing George Bush in Iowa, Bob Dole suddenly has the aura of a champion. -- Two natural adversaries, Michael Dukakis and Richard Gephardt, are in a fight for the soul of the Democratic Party. --Pat Robertson leads a moral revolt that other politicians ignore at their peril, says Essayist Garry Wills. -- Two killings in Los Angeles raise issues of race and class bias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Feb. 22, 1988 | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...Jerusalem (or Palestinian) Talmud, far less known, is half as long, but many sections are so condensed as to be unintelligible. Its message was alive only for scholars and a handful of others. Now that is changing because a brilliant Orthodox rabbi named Adin Steinsaltz believes Judaism is in peril if "an essential part of our people are cut off from the Talmud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Giving The Talmud to the Jews | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: TUNNEL OF LOVE (Columbia). Another great record by the Boss. Act indifferent at your peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Best of '87: Music | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

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