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...Life, a quarterly published by Fox TV's owner, Rupert Murdoch, is almost sweet by comparison. The inaugural issue features an article by syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry, the baby-boomer laureate, and at least a dozen other stories ape his smirky, adolescent style. The magazine exudes this attitude most succinctly in a column by Mike Kelly, who deplores the emergence of a less macho, more candid style of masculinity: "I don't know any New Men. I don't know any women who know any New Men. I don't even know any women who want to know...
Integration of the former East Germany automatically introduces a special set of relationships with Eastern neighbors. "The cultural and economic links brought by the G.D.R. require Germany to develop a policy for Eastern Europe," says law professor Rupert Scholz, a former West German Defense Minister. That need is being accelerated by apprehension about instability and political fragility in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. "I am very much concerned at the shaky situation there," says Horst Teltschik, Kohl's top foreign policy adviser. "There is no stabilized democracy. They are in bad economic shape, and different ethnic groups are fighting...
...cast is admirable, notably Faith Prince as the abandoned wife, Michael Rupert as her ex-husband, Stephen Bogardus as the man he left her for, and Price as the psychiatrist. The fulcrum of the ensemble is the child of the broken marriage, on the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, played with just the right blend of anxiety and healing gumption by Danny Gerard, 13. Each actor gets at least one beautiful, revealing song, and all of them make William Finn's music haunting. This individual excellence adds up to general excellence: for craft and for heart, Falsettoland is the first...
...with the same period in 1989. But while nobody doubts that the Times will continue, optimism about the tabloids is hard to find. The Post, a mix of catty gossip columns, conservative editorials and chest-thumping sports reporting, hasn't earned a penny in nearly two decades. Press lord Rupert Murdoch lost $150 million during the 12 years he owned the paper. He was threatening to close it down in 1988, when Kalikow, wealthy and eager to join the glamorous world of publishing, bought it from him for $37 million. Vowing to preserve the city's last conservative editorial voice...
...shake-out is at hand. Magazines are going under or changing hands at a dizzying rate. Owen Lipstein's Psychology Today suspended publishing in February; struggling monthlies such as CMP's Long Island Monthly and Time Inc. Magazines' Southpoint went out of business; Rupert Murdoch's debt-ridden News Corp. sold the gossipy Star to the National Enquirer and delayed plans to launch its own weekly newsmagazine...