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The marina fills seven acres, more or less, of this point of land, and even the most sentimental observer can see that it is a piece of property "ripe for development." It is humble, but every winter it was home to about 120 boats. The wooden docks were lined with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: End of an Era | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

Hats off, though to Chaim Potok. Davita's Harp, the author's sixth novel and the first narrated by a woman, successfully balances the stuff of newspapers with the stuff of diaries. Here, the key events of the 1930s--the Depression, the rise of fascism, the Spanish Civil War and...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: Music in the Darkness | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

So why are the Russians worried? Surely it is not out of concern that the United States might waste valuable national treasure constructing an unworkable weapon. And surely not out of some sentimental desire to maintain outer space as a lake of peace. The reason the Russians are worried should...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Eat Crow, Yuppies | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Some of the fierce vitality of the sexual encounters in Paley's earlier stories have given way to more nostalgic couplings. In "Listening," a middle-aged woman driving south on Broadway sees a pedestrian whose "nice unimportant clothes seemed to be merely a shelter for the naked male person." She...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Disturbances of Woman Later the Same Day | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Iacocca reads like Iacocca talks, more or less. The book was actually stitched together by Writer William Novak (for a flat fee of $45,000) after some 20 tape-recorded sessions with his subject. Most of the syntactical switchbacks and impulsive rhetorical questions have been edited out. Most notably, his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spunky Tycoon Turned Superstar | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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