Word: subject
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CENTRAL QUESTION RAISED BY THE OKLAHOMA CITY bombing is whether a free society can prevent terrorist acts. A good deal of loose talk will be heard about the subject in the next few weeks--some of it urging the FBI to "do whatever is necessary," and some of it cautioning the government to "protect the Constitution." We have been through this before, and we ought to remember what we learned in order that we not, again, lose our bearings...
...ROBERT CRUMB'S WIVES AND girlfriends about the Brueghel of underground comics, and they'll say he's morose, withdrawn, almost socially autistic. Crumb agrees, and adds wryly, "That's why I'm such an exciting subject for a movie...
Well, he is. He's the subject of a spooky spellbinder called Crumb. With all due respect to Hoop Dreams, and with none to the inbred documentary-screening-committee clan of the Motion Picture Academy, which handed this year's Oscar to a former chair of that committee, Crumb is the one that should...
...WHENEVER A FRIEND SUCCEEDS, a little something in me dies," Gore Vidal once said, pretty much covering the subject of envy in a single line. Now Martin Amis has milked the topic for an entire novel. The Information (Harmony; 374 pages; $24) is just appearing in the U.S., two months after its publication in Britain. With it trails a controversy that has kept the London book world jawing for months...
That's why editorial writers are expected to research their pieces, either by reading scholarship or other journalism on the subject, interviewing sources, or even just talking with their friends...