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There is, for example, a whole generation of Soviet officials who put perfectly sane dissidents into psychiatric prisons and presided over that hell called the gulag. Those officials are not just running around the world. Some of them are still running Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Strange Morality | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...thesis becomes, how you would like to continue in your state of denial for at least a little while longer, remaining peacefully oblivious to the long road of writing ahead. This is not a paper you crank out the night before, not, at least, if you want to stay sane...

Author: By Nancy MILAGROS Trasande, | Title: Don't Ask Me About My Thesis | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...young secretary got off a train with two dead bodies stuffed in her luggage, triggering the sensational 1930s trial that dubbed her the "trunk murderess"; in Phoenix, Ariz. A sanity hearing spared her the death penalty and sent her packing to an Arizona hospital for three decades. Later judged sane, she went to prison, and was released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 9, 1998 | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...true opera lover that loves to soak up every last bit of juicy opera gossip, this is a book that could easily be read in one sitting, as the comments on the back of the book jacket profess. For all of those sane, not-yet-obsessed opera fans, however, the book will take a little more effort. Although written in a relaxed, unpretentious style, the narrative is inundated with the names of every important performer, publicist, conductor and record company CEO in the business, not to mention the titles and allusions to plot synopses of most of the major operas...

Author: By Chad B. Denton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Dirt on Divas | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...most controlled moments and hauntingly lucid in her moments of insanity. She makes the tale of shooting her husband sound as normal as going to the grocery--an effect which makes it only more disturbing, and more realistic. Babe's obsession with suicide makes her seem only marginally sane, yet the profound truths she uncovers in her wildest fits reveal her as the play's wisest character, a trait that Taylor might have glossed over had she not so thoroughly understood her character...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CRIMES of the HEART | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

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