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Dates: during 1990-1999
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VICTORIES by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt; $19.95). Higgins' dictum, "Dialogue is character is plot," could be no better illustrated than in his latest political novel, about a congressional election in Vermont during the 1960s, when the voters and candidates square off over the Vietnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 10, 1990 | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...They're murderers. That's my tree. They can't cut that down. I believe it's a big plot, a conspiracy between a whole lot of people to cut that tree down. That's how much power the Lampoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 12/8/1990 | See Source »

...believe it's a big plot, a conspiracy between a whole lot of people to cut that tree down," he said. "That's how much power the Lampoon...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: Lampoon Tree Felled; Vellucci Slams Butchery | 12/6/1990 | See Source »

THREE MEN AND A LITTLE LADY. The bachelor trio (Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson) of the 1987 box-office champ Three Men and a Baby are now in charge of a six-year-old. The jokes and plot lines are way older, and everyone plays breathlessly cute. Pablum for the masses: it'll make zillions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 3, 1990 | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...fool, knows this is like taking a high dive into a damp dishrag. But they talk. And talk. And Briggs and his wife Lillian argue. And argue. She's an earache. When he was in baseball he played around, and now she's getting back at him. Talk is plot is literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man with the Golden Ear | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

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