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...hysterically because he might have saved even more people but did not. Keneally is distressed by that passage. But he also, and correctly, insists the movie "isn't at all untrue to the spirit of Schindler . . . to that ambiguity that attracted me to him in the first place -- the scoundrel savior." More important, the movie arrives when it is very obviously needed. The few survivors of the Holocaust are old now, and dying, and the task of remembering, of testifying, must pass to members of Spielberg's generation and others still younger. It is a hopeful sign, perhaps, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heart of Darkness | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...depose Randall Fine and that scoundrel Mike Beys...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: How Do You Freeze? | 10/16/1993 | See Source »

...members (among them, a high concentration of writers, journalists, musicians and Grateful Deadheads) and sparking a network-wide debate on the spoken and unspoken rules of electronic etiquette. Supporters of Lisa, Beth and Nancy sent their messages flying. "E-mail is the last refuge of a scoundrel," said one. But there were plenty of opponents of the "outing" of Mr. X. "I haven't seen anything posted here that suggests he did anything evil," said a veteran WELL user. "The ugliness here smacks of a lynch mob out for good old-fashioned vengeance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heartbreak In Cyberspace | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

...consummate professional, and his gifts as a writer and editor helped shape this magazine for 30 years. His greatest legacy to us is the high standard of inquiry and fairness, of skepticism and decency, that he imposed on himself and on the magazine; he always reminded us when the scoundrel had been acquitted. He was inner-directed and mistrusted trends. He never failed to check writers' inclination to excess. As a colleague says, "In a conflict between poetry and truth, Ron came down on the side of truth." He hated what was false and had X-ray vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Managing Editor: Apr. 5, 1993 | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...issue of family values is the last refuge of a scoundrel -- or of a threatened Republican incumbent. The issue is almost by definition a smokescreen, and a manipulation of voters' closeted fears and prejudices. The Republicans are wary about emphasizing race this year. They are sensitive about criticism of the way they used Willie Horton in 1988. And they have been making progress in attracting black middle-class supporters. So they have switched their emphasis to family values with a sexual subtext -- Murphy Brown, out-of-the-closet gay militance, condom distribution in the schools, sexual flamboyance in publicly funded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Values | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

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