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I took an editorial mop to the mess, scrubbing with strokes so rigorous that they laid tire tracks of emotional trauma across the metaphysical entity that served as a literary cipher for my soul.

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Brain-Addled Air Junkies | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

Gone from the modern training lexicon are the physical brutality and psychological abuse that once made camps like Parris Island, S.C., seem the American counterpart of Devil's Island. Boot camp is still rigorous, and some drills involve live ammunition; 37 enlistees have died during training at the Marine Corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And To Keep Our Honor Clean | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

The Justice Department maintains that the documentary evidence is subject to rigorous scrutiny and testing by historians and handwriting, ink and paper experts for both the defense and the Government. Defense counsel are also invited to cross-examine witnesses when videotape depositions are taken in the Soviet Union, at U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Problems Of Crime and Punishment | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

Linnas supporters dispute exactly that. Deportation is a civil proceeding, and they argue that the U.S. should use the more rigorous standards of criminal procedure, as Canada has decided to do. Critics also point out that witnesses in the U.S.S.R. testify under Soviet rules and cannot be adequately challenged by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Problems Of Crime and Punishment | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

The war, which evoked so little from French artists, inspired some English ones to their best work; Paul Nash's A Night Bombardment, 1919-20, a view of the sea of cratered mud and dead trees at the front, is both formally rigorous and filled -- though not a figure appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Singular And Grand | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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