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That's the good part. What is exasperating about Isaacs' novel is that every even-numbered chapter breaks off from this engaging legal drama to spin out a whiny and exceedingly slow-moving melodrama of Lily White's fretful childhood and early adult years. Her younger sister, we learn at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: MISPLACED CONFIDENCES | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

In a play where it is so difficult to understand what people are saying, therefore, the actors do remarkably well in surviving the onslaught of their own words. Alexis Susman, as Dora, employs the same "oh-me-oh-my" domestic manner when hanging out clothes to dry as she does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Levine's Loeb Ex Effort Triumphs Despite Play's Obscurity | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

Hillary now has her own scandal, big enough to match the guys', and she is taking it like a man. She doesn't get petulant, the way Steve Forbes did last week when the other candidates ganged up on him. It reminds me of my first up-close and personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VOTE WITH YOUR BOOKS | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE OUT OF YOUR minds! If that power-mad, petulant brat is Man of the Year, then I am Queen of the Universe! LESLIE HOLMAN-ANDERSON Seattle

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1996 | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

TWO OF THE CASUALTIES OF THE Republican Congress's petulant drive to shut down parts of the government have been--well, you'd hardly guess. Not only nine Cabinet departments and 38 federal agencies, commissions and boards, but the artists Winslow Homer and Johannes Vermeer.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: DUTCH TREAT | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

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