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...boys had to be fetched from shore in a dinghy, and then Michel, who has been working at an architectural firm for a year, had to be boated home. On land he proudly drives an old rusted $500 Ford LTD. "Janis hates it," he said, coming aboard. "I had only had little European cars. I very much wanted a big, stupid machine." This was on a Friday, and Michel did a very American thing. He handed his wife his paycheck and got himself a beer...
...live with the necessary but often confining space constraints of journalism. Quite a number of them, however, have found an antidote for the weekly squeeze: writing books. "I enjoy the long haul of a book," says TIME Art Critic Robert Hughes, author of the best-selling The Fatal Shore (Knopf), a 688-page history of his native Australia's years as a British penal colony. "Books give you a greater sense of proprietorship," says Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, whose ninth work, City of Nets (Harper & Row), details the Hollywood of the 1940s. "They are something that you can call your...
Finding the time to write is a problem. Hughes spent ten years on The Fatal Shore. "It was a constant tap dance between the magazine and the book," says he. Friedrich worked weekends for four years to finish City of Nets. Senior Editor Walter Isaacson labored late at night and during weeks off on The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (Simon & Schuster), a chronicle of the U.S. foreign policy establishment co-with former Associate Editor Evan Thomas. "Even so," says Isaacson, "it took three years...
...Japanese export beer tends to be thin and disappointing, which is to say it tends to taste far better than our mainstream belly wash. For that matter, Ladakhi Buddhists in remote Himalayan valleys make beer better than ours in open earthenware pots, in which dazed microorganisms swim for the shore. Furthermore...
Human rights guidelines would help Congress insure that economic aid is not used to shore up military repression. The $300 million in new aid that Dodd-Weicker provides to military "democracies," however, lacks human rights guidelines and is consequently open to abuse; it would continue to subsidize war in Central America...