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...Class of '61 was, like most, a reflection of the times. Our four years came during the second Eisenhower term and it was a time of rest. We were between Korea and Vietnam, and, like the country as a whole, it seems, floated on a quiet stream...

Author: By Charles DUFORT Ravenel, | Title: That Was the College Then, This Is Now | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Whoever said dead men tell no tales did not account for Ernest Hemingway. Since he was buried in 1961, ten books have been published with his name on them. They include memoirs, letters, sketches and two novels, Islands in the Stream and now The Garden of Eden, a kinky love triangle about a promising young writer and two women on the leading edge of fashion and sexual mechanics. The setting is the coast of southern France during the mid-1920s. The sun is strong, the water clean, the food good and true. Best of all, the hotel Grau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Man and the Sea Change the Garden of Eden | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...this Batman is not welcomed by a grateful populace. "Think of the noise that came from what Bernie Goetz did," Miller told Los Angeles Times, "and imagine if there was a very powerful, terrifying figure doing that on a regular basis." Television screens stream across the pages of The Dark Knight, constantly reporting--and creating--the public reaction to Batman's sensationally violent exploits...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: A Bat Out of Hell | 4/30/1986 | See Source »

...desire for readability...I want the texts I write to be readable, too...." But the air of gratuitousness embellished with sincerity leads us to suspect that we are imprisoned in a confessional--on the wrong side of the screen--listening with horror and fascination to the "powerful and pathetic stream" of Barthes' language...

Author: By Yoon SUN Lee, | Title: Writing on Writing | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

...being. Uganda's Idi Amin has managed to make himself all but invisible in Saudi Arabia. The Central African Republic's Emperor Bokassa has found a home near Paris. And so on. But such men are rarely welcomed, and never feel at home, in the places where the jet stream has deposited them. They keep out of sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Island of the Lost Autocrats | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

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