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But if one can overlook the drawbacks, there are kernels of wondrous description and gripping emotion worthy of appeciation scattered at points throughout the book. Unfortunately, Kaplan cannot produce a uniformly well-crafted work, like many authors of years past.

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, | Title: Skating is the Story of a Born Loser | 10/10/1991 | See Source »

Even the setting--a relaxed (and very cheesy) living room with cups and magazines scattered on a coffee table--throws off the yes-it's-TV-but-it's-still-serious-journalism attitude of the other D.C. shows.

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Serious Kitsch | 10/9/1991 | See Source »

The hard-liners' coup is history, but one ominous fact remains: the Soviet nuclear arsenal contains some 27,000 warheads scattered through several republics. Who will now control them? During the three days of Gorbachev's confinement, his so-called football -- the satchel containing launch- authorization codes -- was in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What About the Nukes? | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

Ryan's plan slowly, oh, so slowly, gains ground, not only in Washington and Rome but also in Israel and various Arab states. The CIA man is modestly gratified: "It would be nice, he thought, to set that whole area to rest." But there are evil people who do not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother of All Potboilers | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

Courageous moves by these entertainment giants, no doubt protecting an unsuspecting public from . . . what exactly? The contumely heaped upon Pee-wee -- while George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Moscow to reduce nuclear arsenals, and while severed human heads and scattered skeletal remains were being traced to a mass murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pee-Wee's Misadventure | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

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