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Last week's National Book Awards banquet in Manhattan was an exquisite literary evening. Copies of nominated books graced each table, nonfloral arrangements for perusal by the usually rumpled and solitary wrestlers of verb and tense now glittering in tuxedos and sequins. There was some disappointment over Tom Wolfe's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Elegant Execution | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Lee Simon (Kenneth Branagh) is a man in a rumpled corduroy jacket with his nose pressed eagerly against the double-glazed windows of fame. A failed novelist, he writes celebrity profiles for magazines and subsists emotionally on such crusts--a bit of gossip, a moment of false intimacy--as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Wages Of Fame | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

And that's just what may happen. Which is why Redford himself, in all his rumpled blue-eyed splendor, showed up in Madison, Wis., last week to stump for the candidate who most closely resembles The Candidate. "I don't do this very often," Redford told fellow party loyalists Wednesday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The System Bites Back/The Race For The Senate | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Yumashev is an unlikely eminence grise. A rumpled, 40-year-old ex-journalist, he began working for Yeltsin in the late '80s. He avoids cameras and interviews, and those who know him say he is amiable, tough and determined. His relationship with Yeltsin is said to be almost as close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Job Just Got Harder For Boris' Handlers | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

Tsibliyev liked his romance tunes and played them whenever he could. But after the commander's blue mood last night, Foale had not expected to hear them this morning. Wriggling out of his sleeping bag in the Spektr science module and drifting into the main module, he saw that Tsibliyev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BAD DAY IN SPACE | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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