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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MACGUFFIN by Stanley Elkin (Simon & Schuster; 283 pages; $19.95). Bobbo Druff, 58, is a washed-up pol serving time as city commissioner of streets in a minor-league U.S. metropolis. His wife of 36 years is going deaf; his son Mikey, 30, still lives at home; and his health -- after a heart bypass, four instances of a collapsed lung and extensive circulatory problems in his legs -- is not robust. Understandably he concludes that the "world is getting away from me, I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spring Bouquet of Fiction | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...Almost. I don't think really, but I hope we came close. Something like "The One Bullet Manager," which we claim we got Pol Pot to write for us--that's not too far from a book that has a management theory that I could think of. And if somebody came in there and said that they killed their employee to scare them into performing better...Well, not quite, but almost. There are books, like Winning Through Intimidation, and how far is that from ours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Talk About Sequels | 2/8/1991 | See Source »

Fifteen years ago, this peasant-based, uneducated Maoist group committed some of the worst human rights atrocities in recent (and long-term) history. Led by the radical Pol Pot, they overran the capital, Phnom Penh, in 1975 and proceeded to slaughter one in seven of their fellow citizens. Most city dwellers were herded into concentration camp-like "reeducation" communes in the countryside, better known as the killing fields...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Finally, Hope in Southeast Asia | 11/17/1990 | See Source »

Bulger has been in office a long time, almost 30 years in the state legislature, and to many observers he bears a more than passing resemblance to the ultra-literate Irish pol Frank Skeffington in Edwin O'Connor's novel The Last Hurrah...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: The Battle Of the Bulger | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

Still, Feinstein prefers snide references to Wilson as just another boring male pol ("Change is more than exchanging one pinstripe suit for another in Sacramento"). Though sartorial satire by a man about a woman candidate would be regarded as sexist, Feinstein is getting away with it. The latest distracting dustup started two weeks ago, when Feinstein heckled Wilson about his poor Senate attendance record. Go back to Washington to help out in the government budget wrangle, she taunted him, and I'll suspend campaigning. Last week Wilson returned to the capital because of the deficit showdown. Feinstein cheerfully continued campaigning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Down and Dirty | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

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