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Lodge takes care to keep these two evenly matched, each as disconcertingly perceptive and sweetly ridiculous as the other. Sexually, it is Robyn who is the lighthearted aggressor and Vic who, after spending a single night with her, turns into a love-sick calf and begins making alarming declarations about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romance, Of Course, Blooms | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

Like Evita's tour, Bush's own "triumphant" tour of Eastern and Western Europe was just as rhetorical, just as optimistic and just as indicative of his relative lack of power in the world political scene.

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Tales of a Wimp President | 8/4/1989 | See Source »

Beyond that, notes Dr. Kathleen Nolan of New York's Hastings Center, "there is no consensus on how to talk about frozen embryos." In fact, she observes, the ethical debate is even less focused than the unending rhetorical battle over abortion. Which means, ultimately, that all concerned have a lot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: The Rights of Frozen Embryos | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

Democracy usually requires that its battles be fought in the legislatures. But in the 16 years since Roe was decided, the nation has avoided a full-scale political brawl between those at one extreme who feel that a fetus is a mass of dependent protoplasm to be extracted without regret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle over Abortion | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

Quayle insists he never distorts Bush's basic themes. His more controversial statements, he argues, are part of the "rhetorical role that a Vice President can have. The Vice President can say and do things the President shouldn't."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dan Quayle's Salvage Strategy | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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