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...wife, an advertising executive. So he moves into an empty wing of his parents' home. The situation is ripe for satire, but Gordimer has more serious plans. As Paul struggles to recover, his country and his family fall apart. High-stakes battles over corruption and development rage on without him. As in A Guest of Honour, The House Gun and most of her 11 other novels, Gordimer weaves together big national issues and small personal crises. Yet this time she also uses local vocabularies, incomplete sentences and elliptical syntax that some readers may find annoying (helpfully, she appends a glossary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Enough Wrongs To Write | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

...Alpha-Hydroxy Acids Although they may sound unpleasant if not somewhat painful, alpha-hydroxy acids were all the rage in cosmetics this year. AHAS are acids derived from fruit, sugar or milk that are used in beauty creams to minimize wrinkles. Available largely by prescription until now, AHAS have turned up in skin-care products by Elizabeth Arden, Estee Lauder, Revlon and Avon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST PRODUCTS OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

COVER Men of the Year 32 The Peacemakers The conflicts in the Middle East and South Africa seemed frozen in a no-exit of chronic hatred. Then four men decided to find a way to break out, despite continued rage around them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

Presented with the possibility, Kavulla said he thought a permanent organization is not necessary. He has repeatedly expressed frustration with groups who attack his magazine. “Instead of taking out their rage on The Salient, campus Muslims would be wise to focus their attentions on those places from whence their faith came,” he wrote in the Crimson editorial, “those places where what is called ‘moderate Islam’ is today besieged...

Author: By Beau C. Robicheaux, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: DOOR DROPPED: How to Start a Fight | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...fierce game of armchair politics. He delights in pointing out that “The Line of Beauty,” set in London from 1983 to 1987, contains nothing but praise and awe of then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, though the novelist (and, most would argue, the novel) rage against the “ghastliness” of the era and its leadership. Never explicitly advancing a political or moral agenda in his fiction, Hollinghurst nonetheless has plenty to say about real-life politics then and now. The ’80s saw a “sexualized idolatry...

Author: By Laura E. Kolbe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gay Brit Draws 'Line' | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

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