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...artifacts, not art. Another reason is that literary fiction of the past two decades, good at dramatizing personal crises, has rarely attempted to engage the tumult of the wider world. Social disorder is handled more efficiently in nonfiction, journalism or seductively moving images. Who needs to plow through an imaginative verbal construct when the content is available in more accessible forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: FICTION'S NEW FAB FOUR | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...think we may be at a slight disadvantage because we don't have a turf field and we've been inside all week," Rollins said. "I think Cornell has been outside the past few days, because it has a field it can just plow. But our lack of time outside shouldn't make that big of a difference...

Author: By Matthew F. Delmont, | Title: Ivy Season to Get Into Swing | 4/4/1997 | See Source »

Steering the night's entertainment into the realm of parody, "Speed-the-Play" skewers the theater of David Mamet. This skit contains miniature versions of four Mamet plays: "American Buffalo," "Speed-the-Plow," "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" and "Glengarry Glen Ross...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: Fast-Paced Production of Ives Play Almost a Sure Thing | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

...what does account for the widening gap? When stocks are flying as they are now, even discerning managers blindly plow money into the big stocks that make up major indexes. They want to hold little cash so it doesn't drag down performance. But the cash comes into their funds so fast that they can't find enough lesser-known stocks to spend it on. So they park ever more money in big stocks, which are easy to buy and sell, while searching for true bargains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUR FUND IS NOT UP TO PAR | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

Wright, a member and leader of the state Senate for 17 years, was called a modern-day Cincinnatus by a local newspaper, after the Roman farmer who set aside his plow to save the Republic: he says he saw the chaos in the G.O.P.-controlled Congress and felt a "call" to go to Washington. Wright supports a balanced-budget amendment, tax cuts and welfare reform that moves people into the workplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: KENTUCKY | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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